Re: [PATCH] mempolicy: Clarify what RECLAIM_ZONE means

[SeongJae Park]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 09:48:54 +0800 "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
[...]
> > On that note, one thing that I felt was slightly undercaptured in
> > Documentation/admin-guide is what "zone reclaim" actually means. What it does
> > is of course well captured by its name, but it misses the nuance of preferring
> > reclaim over fallback allocation.
> >
> > Actually the whole motivation behind all of this conversation is because I saw
> > zone reclaim preventing allocation into a second node in a 2-NUMA node system
> > and was a bit confused until I understood what the implication of having
> > zone reclaim was.
> 
> Yes.  It's good to improve the document.  If it makes you confusing, it
> may make others confusing too.

+1


Thanks,
SJ

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