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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>,
	kxr@sgi.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Allow selected nodes to be excluded from MPOL_INTERLEAVE masks
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:33:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708011233.02103.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070801101651.GA9113@linux-sh.org>

On Wednesday 01 August 2007 12:16:51 Paul Mundt wrote:

> Well, it's not so much the interleave that's the problem so much as
> _when_ we interleave. The problem with the interleave node mask at system
> init is that the kernel attempts to spread out data structures across
> these nodes, which results in us being completely out of memory by the
> time we get to userspace. After we've booted, supporting MPOL_INTERLEAVE
> is not so much of a problem, applications just have to be careful with
> their allocations.

I assume you got a mostly flat latency machine with a few additional
small nodes for special purposes, right?

Would the problem be solved if you just had a per arch CONFIG
to disable interleaving at boot?  That would be really simple.

-Andi (who is a bit sceptical of more and more boot options) 

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-01 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-27 20:07 Lee Schermerhorn
2007-07-28  6:19 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-07-30 16:13   ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-07-30 18:29     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-30 20:32       ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-07-30 21:57         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-01 10:16     ` Paul Mundt
2007-08-01 10:33       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-08-01 11:01         ` Paul Mundt
2007-08-01 11:07           ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-01 11:21             ` Paul Mundt
2007-08-01 13:54               ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-02 17:38                 ` Mark Gross
2007-08-02 18:46                   ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-06 16:42                     ` Mark Gross
2007-08-01 13:39       ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-03  7:53         ` Paul Mundt

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