Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/5] numa - migration cache - core implementation

KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:48:18 +0900 (JST)
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-numa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > Migration Cache  1/4 - Core Implementation
> > 
> > At the Linux Plumber's conference, Andi Kleen encouraged me again
> > to resubmit my automatic page migration patches because he thinks
> > they will be useful for virtualization.  Later, in the Virtualization
> > mini-conf, the subject came up during a presentation about adding
> > NUMA awareness to qemu/kvm.  After the presentation, I discussed
> > these series with Andrea Arcangeli and he also encouraged me to
> > post them.  My position within HP has changed such that I'm not
> > sure how much time I'll have to spend on this area nor whether I'll
> > have access to the larger NUMA platforms on which to test the
> > patches thoroughly.  However, here is the last of 4 series that
> > comprise my shared policy enhancements and lazy/auto-migration
> > enhancement.
> > 
> > I have rebased the patches against a recent mmotm tree.  This
> > rebase built cleanly, booted and passed a few ad hoc tests on
> > x86_64.  I've made a pass over the patch descriptions to update
> > them.  If there is sufficient interest in merging this, I'll
> > do what I can to assist in the completion and testing of the
> > series.
> 
> Please make [0/5] and describe why do we need migration cache and
> it bring which benefit.
> 
> For swapless machine? If so, can you please describe why compcache
> (ram based swap) doesn't fit your case.

Sorry, I've found resended one.