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Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/19] mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy
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On 11/06/2012 04:14 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> This is the dumbest possible policy that still does something of note.
> When a pte_numa is faulted, it is moved immediately. Any replacement
> policy must at least do better than this and in all likelihood this
> policy regresses normal workloads.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

I expect this code to be replaced with a smarter policy.
However, it may be appropriate to merge this into -mm,
and then have the smarter policy implemented on top.

In case we go that route ...

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>