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MIGRATEPAGES(8)       Linux Administrator's Manual       MIGRATEPAGES(8)

NAME         top

       migratepages - Migrate the physical location a processes pages

SYNOPSIS         top

       migratepages pid from-nodes to-nodes

DESCRIPTION         top

       migratepages moves the physical location of a processes pages
       without any changes of the virtual address space of the process.
       Moving the pages allows one to change the distances of a process
       to its memory. Performance may be optimized by moving a processes
       pages to the node where it is executing.

       If multiple nodes are specified for from-nodes or to-nodes then
       an attempt is made to preserve the relative location of each page
       in each nodeset.

       For example if we move from nodes 2-5 to 7,9,12-13 then the
       preferred mode of operation is to move pages from 2->7, 3->9,
       4->12 and 5->13. However, this is only posssible if enough memory
       is available.

       Valid node specifiers
              all                 All nodes
              number              Node number
              number1{,number2}   Node number1 and Node number2
              number1-number2     Nodes from number1 to number2
              ! nodes             Invert selection of the following specification.

NOTES         top

       Requires a NUMA policy aware kernel with support for page
       migration (linux 2.6.16 and later).

       migratepages will only move pages that are not shared with other
       processes if called by a user without administrative priviledges
       (but with the right to modify the process).

       migratepages will move all pages if invoked from root (or a user
       with administrative priviledges).

FILES         top

       /proc/<pid>/numa_maps for information about the NUMA memory use
       of a process.

COPYRIGHT         top

       Copyright 2005-2006 Christoph Lameter, Silicon Graphics, Inc.
       migratepages is under the GNU General Public License, v.2

SEE ALSO         top

       numactl(8) , set_mempolicy(2) , get_mempolicy(2) , mbind(2) ,
       sched_setaffinity(2) , sched_getaffinity(2) , proc(5) , ftok(3) ,
       shmat(2) , taskset(1)

COLOPHON         top

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SGI                             Jan 2005                 MIGRATEPAGES(8)

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