linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add fbind() and NUMA mempolicy support for KVM guest

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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 18:55:35 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: Shivank Garg <shivankg@....com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add fbind() and NUMA mempolicy support for KVM
 guest_memfd

On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 04:45:45PM +0000, Shivank Garg wrote:
> This patch series introduces fbind() syscall to support NUMA memory
> policies for KVM guest_memfd, allowing VMMs to configure memory placement
> for guest memory. This addresses the current limitation where guest_memfd
> allocations ignore NUMA policies, potentially impacting performance of
> memory-locality-sensitive workloads.

Why does guest_memfd ignore numa policies?  The pagecache doesn't,
eg in vma_alloc_folio_noprof().