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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:48:57 +0100
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm/numa_balancing:Allow migrate on protnone
 reference with MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy
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On Tue 20-02-24 09:27:25, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
[...]
> 	case MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY:
> 		if (pol->flags & MPOL_F_MORON) {
> 			if (!mpol_preferred_should_numa_migrate(thisnid, curnid, pol))
> 				goto out;
> 			break;
> 		}
> 
> 		/*
> 		 * use current page if in policy nodemask,
> 		 * else select nearest allowed node, if any.
> 		 * If no allowed nodes, use current [!misplaced].
> 		 */
> 		if (node_isset(curnid, pol->nodes))
> 			goto out;
> 		z = first_zones_zonelist(
> 				node_zonelist(thisnid, GFP_HIGHUSER),
> 				gfp_zone(GFP_HIGHUSER),
> 				&pol->nodes);
> 		polnid = zone_to_nid(z->zone);
> 		break;
>  ....
> ..
>        }
> 
> 	/* Migrate the folio towards the node whose CPU is referencing it */
> 	if (pol->flags & MPOL_F_MORON) {
> 		polnid = thisnid;
> 
> 		if (!should_numa_migrate_memory(current, folio, curnid,
> 						thiscpu))
> 			goto out;
> 	}
> 
> 	if (curnid != polnid)
> 		ret = polnid;
> out:
> 	mpol_cond_put(pol);
> 
> 	return ret;
> }

Ohh, right this code is confusing as hell. Thanks for the clarification.
With this in mind. There should be a comment warning about MPOL_F_MOF
always being unset as the userspace cannot really set it up.

Thanks!

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs