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Linux 6.16 Exposes Statistics For NUMA Task Migration & Swapping
In addition to the memory management 'MM' changes merged last week that included features like Kernel HandOver 'KHO' support, a second batch of MM changes were submitted and merged this week for Linux 6.16
In addition to the memory management "MM" changes merged last week that included features like Kernel HandOver "KHO" support, a second batch of MM changes were submitted and merged this week for Linux 6.16. Notable with the secondary set of memory management updates is exposing more visibility into the NUMA balancer's task migration activity. Introducing both per-task and per-memory cgroup (memcg) NUMA balancing statistics facilitates a rapid evaluation of the performance and resource utilization of the target workload. The NUMA task migration and swap statistics are now exposed with the latest Linux 6.16 development code.
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