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From: Jeremy Harris <jgh@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Disable zone_reclaim_mode by default
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:26:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <534671DB.50802@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1404081752390.16708@nuc>

On 08/04/14 23:58, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> The reason that zone reclaim is on by default is that off node accesses
> are a big performance hit on large scale NUMA systems (like ScaleMP and
> SGI). Zone reclaim was written *because* those system experienced severe
> performance degradation.
>
> On the tightly coupled 4 and 8 node systems there does not seem to
> be a benefit from what I hear.

In principle, is this difference in distance something the kernel
could measure?
-- 
Cheers,
    Jeremy


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-10 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-07 22:34 Mel Gorman
2014-04-07 22:34 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: " Mel Gorman
2014-04-07 23:35   ` Johannes Weiner
2014-04-08  1:17   ` Zhang Yanfei
2014-04-08  7:14   ` Andres Freund
2014-04-08 14:14   ` Christoph Lameter
2014-04-08 14:47     ` Mel Gorman
2014-04-07 22:34 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: page_alloc: Do not cache reclaim distances Mel Gorman
2014-04-07 23:36   ` Johannes Weiner
2014-04-08  1:17   ` Zhang Yanfei
2014-04-08  7:26 ` [PATCH 0/2] Disable zone_reclaim_mode by default Vlastimil Babka
2014-04-08 14:17   ` Christoph Lameter
2014-04-08 14:26     ` Andres Freund
     [not found]     ` <WM!ea1193ee171854a74828ee30c859d97ff2ce66405ffa3a0b8c31a1233c6a0b55530cdf3cbfcd989c0ec18fef1d533f81!@asav-3.01.com>
2014-04-08 14:46       ` Josh Berkus
2014-04-08 19:53     ` Robert Haas
     [not found]       ` <WM!55d2a092da9f6180473043487a4eb612ae8195f78d2ffdd83f673ed5cb2cb9659cf61e0c8d5bae23f5c914057bcd2ee4!@asav-3.01.com>
2014-04-08 19:56         ` Josh Berkus
2014-04-09 13:08           ` Mel Gorman
2014-04-08 22:58       ` Christoph Lameter
2014-04-08 23:26         ` Mel Gorman
2014-04-10 10:26         ` Jeremy Harris [this message]
2014-04-18 15:49 ` Michal Hocko
2014-04-18 16:44   ` Christoph Lameter

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