From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: ia64 needs to shake memory from quicklists when there is memory pressure.
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:37:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <163690000.1110818244@[10.10.2.4]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050314162412.GA9117@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com>
>> > The "ideal" would be to have a node aware slab cache. Since that
>> > is probably a long time coming,
>>
>> Manfred already did one. Perhaps we can get that going again? would
>> be useful for more than just this ...
>
> Is this the kmem_cache_alloc_node() stuff? If so, when I use that
Yes, I think so.
> for page table allocations, running AIM7 on a 32 processor machine
> consistently live-locks the system. Everybody is waiting inside
> kmem_cache_alloc_node() cachep->spinlock.
>
> Is there a different patch I should be looking for?
Don't know of one, but maybe we can get Manfred to fix the existing one ;-)
M.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-14 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-09 17:09 Robin Holt
2005-03-09 17:15 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-03-14 16:24 ` Robin Holt
2005-03-14 16:37 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2005-03-09 19:32 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-14 16:40 ` Robin Holt
2005-03-14 21:39 ` Andrew Morton
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