linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/19] mm: Create/affine kcompactd to its preferred node

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Message-ID: <351f217b-1aec-4394-8ad1-46f68ee9eebe@suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 19:02:38 +0200
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
 LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/19] mm: Create/affine kcompactd to its preferred node

On 8/7/24 18:02, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Kcompactd is dedicated to a specific node. As such it wants to be
> preferrably affine to it, memory and CPUs-wise.
> 
> Use the proper kthread API to achieve that. As a bonus it takes care of
> CPU-hotplug events and CPU-isolation on its behalf.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>