From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@osdl.org, ck@vds.kolivas.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: implement swap prefetching
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 21:13:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060207211358.8b970343.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602081606.19656.kernel@kolivas.org>
Con wrote:
> > If you don't do that, then consider disabling this thing entirely
> > if CONFIG_NUMA is enabled. This swap prefetching sounds like it
> > could be a loose canon ball in a NUMA box.
>
> That's probably a less satisfactory option since NUMA isn't that rare with the
> light numa of commodity hardware.
You're right -- my suggestion was not a good one.
I expect that the main distros are or will be shipping their stock PC
kernel with NUMA enabled. Most of these kernels end up on exactly the
kind of system that is the target audience for swap prefetching.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-08 5:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-06 23:28 Con Kolivas
2006-02-07 0:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-07 1:29 ` Con Kolivas
2006-02-07 1:32 ` [ck] " Con Kolivas
2006-02-07 1:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-08 3:29 ` [PATCH] mm: implement swap prefetching v21 Con Kolivas
2006-02-08 3:49 ` [ck] " Con Kolivas
2006-02-07 3:08 ` [PATCH] mm: implement swap prefetching Nick Piggin
2006-02-07 3:29 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-07 4:02 ` Con Kolivas
2006-02-07 5:00 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-07 6:02 ` Con Kolivas
2006-02-07 6:51 ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-07 10:54 ` Con Kolivas
2006-02-07 17:14 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-07 20:34 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-02-07 22:39 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-08 4:46 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-08 5:06 ` Con Kolivas
2006-02-08 5:13 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2006-02-08 5:33 ` Con Kolivas
2006-02-24 11:23 [PATCH] mm: Implement " Con Kolivas
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