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With man-pages-3.07, the numa_maps documentation home is now proc(5), so
the reference in Documentation/vm/page_migration needs updating.
(Cliff/Lee are removing numa_maps.5 from the numactl package.) Also, the
download location for the numactl package changed a while back.  This
patch fixes both things, as well as a typo (provided-->provides).

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michael Kerrisk authored and Linus Torvalds committed Aug 15, 2008
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Expand Up @@ -18,10 +18,11 @@ migrate_pages function call takes two sets of nodes and moves pages of a
process that are located on the from nodes to the destination nodes.
Page migration functions are provided by the numactl package by Andi Kleen
(a version later than 0.9.3 is required. Get it from
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ak). numactl provided libnuma which
provides an interface similar to other numa functionality for page migration.
cat /proc/<pid>/numa_maps allows an easy review of where the pages of
a process are located. See also the numa_maps manpage in the numactl package.
ftp://oss.sgi.com/www/projects/libnuma/download/). numactl provides libnuma
which provides an interface similar to other numa functionality for page
migration. cat /proc/<pid>/numa_maps allows an easy review of where the
pages of a process are located. See also the numa_maps documentation in the
proc(5) man page.

Manual migration is useful if for example the scheduler has relocated
a process to a processor on a distant node. A batch scheduler or an
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