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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	apw@shadowen.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations that may be migrated
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:26:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061205102654.19165150.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612050803000.11213@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 08:05:16 -0800 (PST)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Mel Gorman wrote:
> 
> > That is one possibility. There are people working on fake nodes for containers
> > at the moment. If that pans out, the infrastructure would be available to
> > create one node per DIMM.
> 
> Right that is a hack in use for one project.

Other projects can use it too.  It has the distinct advantage that it works
with today's VM.

> We would be adding huge 
> amounts of VM overhead if we do a node per DIMM.

No we wouldn't.

> So a desktop system with two dimms is to be treated like a NUMA 
> system?

Could do that.  Or make them separate zones.

> Or how else do we deal with the multitude of load balancing 
> situations that the additional nodes will generate?

No such problems are known.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-05 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-30 17:07 Mel Gorman
2006-12-01  1:31 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-01  9:54   ` Mel Gorman
2006-12-01 19:01     ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-04 14:07       ` Mel Gorman
2006-12-04 19:30         ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-04 19:41           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-04 20:06             ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-04 20:17               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-04 21:19                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-04 21:43                   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-04 22:22                     ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 16:00                       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-05 19:25                         ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 20:01                           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-05 21:47                             ` Mel Gorman
2006-12-05 23:33                               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-06  9:31                                 ` Mel Gorman
2006-12-06 17:31                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-08  1:21                                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-12-08  2:20                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-08  6:11                                         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-12-05 18:10                       ` Mel Gorman
2006-12-04 20:34           ` Mel Gorman
2006-12-04 22:34             ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-04 23:45               ` Mel Gorman
2006-12-05  1:16                 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-12-05 10:03                   ` Mel Gorman
2006-12-05 16:05                     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-05 18:26                       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-12-05 19:59                         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-05 16:14                 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-05 17:17                   ` Mel Gorman
2006-12-05 19:54                     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-05 15:52               ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-12-05 15:48             ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-12-04 20:37           ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-12-06 14:18             ` Andy Whitcroft

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