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Message-ID: <6599ad830812160025p17269c26id3c6678d4e7d847e@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:25:27 -0800
From: Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
To: miaox@...fujitsu.com
Cc: Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why are the pages not migrated to current cpuset after
'memory_migrate' is set true
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Miao Xie <miaox@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> I found the pages that task had allocated to it on nodes in its previous cpuset
> were not migrated to the tasks' current cpuset after 'memory_migrate' was set
> true. It looks strange for users. Why are the pages not migrated to current
> cpuset after 'memory_migrate' is set true?
>
> Step I did
> 1, allocate pages on cpuset (mems is 0, memory_migrate is 0)
> 2, change cpuset's mems (mems: 0 -> 1)
> 3, change cpuset's memory_migrate(memory_migrate: 0 -> 1)
As Daisuke says, migration only occurs when the mems file is changed
*after* memory_migrate has been set to 1.
Paul
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