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On Wed 17-04-19 13:43:44, Yang Shi wrote:
[...]
> And, I'm wondering whether this optimization is also suitable to general
> NUMA balancing or not.

If there are convincing numbers then this should be a preferable way to
deal with it. Please note that the number of promotions is not the only
metric to watch. The overal performance/access latency would be another one.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs