From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:01:08 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] numa: mempolicy: dynamic interleave map for system init. Message-Id: <20070607180108.0eeca877.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070607011701.GA14211@linux-sh.org> References: <20070607011701.GA14211@linux-sh.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Paul Mundt Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, ak@suse.de, clameter@sgi.com, hugh@veritas.com, lee.schermerhorn@hp.com List-ID: On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:17:01 +0900 Paul Mundt wrote: > This is an alternative approach to the MPOL_INTERLEAVE across online > nodes as the system init policy. Andi suggested it might be worthwhile > trying to do this dynamically rather than as a command line option, so > that's what this tries to do. > > With this, the online nodes are sized and packed in to an interleave map > if they're large enough for interleave to be worthwhile. I arbitrarily > chose 16MB as the node size to enable interleaving, but perhaps someone > has a better figure in mind? > > In the case where all of the nodes are smaller than that, the largest > node is selected and placed in to the map by itself (if they're all the > same size, the first online node gets used). > > If people prefer this approach, the previous patch adding mpolinit can be > dropped. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt Well I took silence as assent. None of the above text is suitable for a changelog. Please send a changelog for this patch, thanks. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org