From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <416D0AA4.30701@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:59:48 +1000 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: NUMA: Patch for node based swapping References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Rik van Riel wrote: > > >>On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Christoph Lameter wrote: >> >> >>>Any other suggestions? >> >>Since this is meant as a stop gap patch, waiting for a real >>solution, and is only relevant for big (and rare) systems, >>it would be an idea to at least leave it off by default. >> >>I think it would be safe to assume that a $100k system has >>a system administrator looking after it, while a $5k AMD64 >>whitebox might not have somebody watching its performance. > > > Ok. Will do that then. Should I submit the patch to Andrew? > I can't see the harm in sending it after 2.6.9 if it defaults to off (maybe also make it CONFIG_NUMA). OTOH, if it is going to be painful to remove later on, then maybe leave it local to your tree. It's true that I have something a bit more sophisticated in the pipe, but it is going to be an uphill battle to get it and everything it depends on merged - so don't count on it for 2.6.10 :P -- 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: aart@kvack.org