Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:10:04 -0700
From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Simon.Derr@bull.net, clameter@sgi.com, akpm@osdl.org, kravetz@us.ibm.com,
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       marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Swap migration V3: sys_migrate_pages interface
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Kame wroteL
> I'm just afraid of swapped-out pages will goes back to original nodes

The pages could end up there, yes, if that's where they are faulted
back into.

In general, the swap-based migration method does not guarantee
where the pages will end up.  The more difficult direct node-to-node
migration method will be needed to guarantee that.

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