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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] mm: Remove NUMA_INTERLEAVE_HIT
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:39:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120113183926.GL11715@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1201130922460.25704@router.home>

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 09:28:20AM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that then there will be nothing left that actually
> > tests interleaving. The numactl has caught kernel regressions in the past.
> 
> How about adding a CONFIG_NUMA_DEBUG option and have it only available
> then? I think there is no general use case.

For a few lines of code? And making it harder to test?

> > I don't think disabling useful regression tests is a good idea.
> > In contrary the kernel needs far more of them, not less.
> 
> True. Some more debugging code for the NUMA features would be appreciated
> but that does not need to be enabled by default. Lately I have become a
> bit concerned about the number of statistics we are adding. The
> per_cpu_pageset structure should not get too large.

I don't think the single counter is a problem.

-Andi

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-13 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-12 15:07 Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-12 17:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-01-12 18:26 ` Andi Kleen
2012-01-12 19:02   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-01-12 19:10     ` Andi Kleen
2012-01-12 20:13   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-12 21:07     ` Andi Kleen
2012-01-12 21:40       ` Andrew Morton
2012-01-12 22:29         ` Andi Kleen
2012-01-13 15:28           ` Christoph Lameter
2012-01-13 18:39             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2012-01-13 19:28               ` Christoph Lameter

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