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What:		/sys/kernel/mm/numa/
Date:		June 2021
Contact:	Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description:	Interface for NUMA

What:		/sys/kernel/mm/numa/demotion_enabled
Date:		June 2021
Contact:	Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description:	Enable/disable demoting pages during reclaim

		Page migration during reclaim is intended for systems
		with tiered memory configurations.  These systems have
		multiple types of memory with varied performance
		characteristics instead of plain NUMA systems where
		the same kind of memory is found at varied distances.
		Allowing page migration during reclaim enables these
		systems to migrate pages from fast tiers to slow tiers
		when the fast tier is under pressure.  This migration
		is performed before swap.  It may move data to a NUMA
		node that does not fall into the cpuset of the
		allocating process which might be construed to violate
		the guarantees of cpusets.  This should not be enabled
		on systems which need strict cpuset location
		guarantees.