On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > Migrate pages moves the pages of a single process there is no TARGET
> > process.
>
> migrate_pages(2) takes a pid argument
>
> "migrate_pages() attempts to move all pages of the process pid that
> are in memory nodes old_nodes to the memory nodes in new_nodes. "
Ok missed that. Most use cases here are on the current process.
Fundamentally a process can have shared pages outside of the cpuset that
a process is restricted to. Thus I would think that migration to any of
the allowed nodes of the current process that is calling migrate pages
is ok. The caller wants this and the caller has a right to allocate on
these nodes. It would be strange if migrate_pages would allow allocation
outside of the current cpuset.
> > Thus thehe *target* nodes need to be a subset of the current cpu set.
And therefore the above still holds.
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