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From: Ray Bryant <raybry@sgi.com>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>,
	hugh@veritas.com, wli@holomorphy.com, akpm@osdl.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Scaling problem with shmem_sb_info->stat_lock
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 22:37:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <410B13E5.9080005@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040730163443.37f9b309.pj@sgi.com>

Perhaps, but then you still have one processor doing the zeroing and setup for 
all of those pages, and that can be a signficiant serial bottleneck.

Paul Jackson wrote:
> Brent wrote:
> 
>>Having a single CPU fault in all the pages will generally
>>cause all pages to reside on a single NUMA node.
> 
> 
> Couldn't one use Andi Kleen's numa mbind() to layout the
> memory across the desired nodes, before faulting it in?
> 

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Best Regards,
Ray
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      reply	other threads:[~2004-07-31  3:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-12 21:11 Brent Casavant
2004-07-12 21:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-12 22:42   ` Brent Casavant
2004-07-13 19:56     ` Brent Casavant
2004-07-13 20:41       ` Hugh Dickins
2004-07-13 21:35         ` Brent Casavant
2004-07-13 22:50           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-13 22:22         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-13 22:27         ` Brent Casavant
2004-07-28  9:26         ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-28  9:59           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-28 22:21             ` Brent Casavant
2004-07-28 23:05               ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-28 23:40                 ` Brent Casavant
2004-07-28 23:53                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-28 23:53               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-29 14:54                 ` Brent Casavant
2004-07-29 19:58               ` Hugh Dickins
2004-07-29 21:21                 ` Brent Casavant
2004-07-29 21:51                   ` Brent Casavant
2004-07-30  1:00                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-30 21:40                 ` Brent Casavant
2004-07-30 23:34                   ` Paul Jackson
2004-07-31  3:37                     ` Ray Bryant [this message]

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