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The ability to observe the demotion and promotion decisions made by the
kernel on a per-cgroup basis is important for monitoring and tuning
containerized workloads on machines equipped with tiered memory.

Different containers in the system may experience drastically different
memory tiering actions that cannot be distinguished from the global
counters alone.

For example, a container running a workload that has a much hotter memory
accesses will likely see more promotions and fewer demotions, potentially
depriving a colocated container of top tier memory to such an extent that
its performance degrades unacceptably.

For another example, some containers may exhibit longer periods between
data reuse, causing much more numa_hint_faults than numa_pages_migrated. 
In this case, tuning hot_threshold_ms may be appropriate, but the signal
can easily be lost if only global counters are available.

In the long term, we hope to introduce per-cgroup...