On (18/06/07 10:04), Christoph Lameter didst pronounce:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:
>
> >
> > CONFIG_MIGRATION currently depends on CONFIG_NUMA. move_pages() is the only
> > user of migration today and as this system call is only meaningful on NUMA,
> > it makes sense. However, memory compaction will operate within a zone and is
>
> There are more user of migration. move_pages is one of them, then there is
> cpuset process migration, MPOL_BIND page migration and sys_migrate_pages
> for explicit process migration.
Ok, this was poor phrasing. Each of those features are NUMA related even
though the core migration mechanism is not dependant on NUMA.
>
> > useful on both NUMA and non-NUMA systems. This patch allows CONFIG_MIGRATION
> > to be used in all memory models. To preserve existing behaviour, move_pages()
> > is only available when CONFIG_NUMA is set.
>
> What does this have to do with memory models? A bit unclear.
>
More poor phrasing. It would have been clearer to simply say that the
patch allows CONFIG_MIGRATION to be used without NUMA.
> Otherwise
>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Thanks
--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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