From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECB3B6B01E0 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 11:48:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [rfc] forked kernel task and mm structures imbalanced on NUMA From: Andi Kleen References: <20100601073343.GQ9453@laptop> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:48:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20100601073343.GQ9453@laptop> (Nick Piggin's message of "Tue\, 1 Jun 2010 17\:33\:43 +1000") Message-ID: <87wruiycsl.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Nick Piggin Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee@firstfloor.org, Schermerh@firstfloor.org List-ID: Nick Piggin writes: > This isn't really a new problem, and I don't know how important it is, > but I recently came across it again when doing some aim7 testing with > huge numbers of tasks. Seems reasonable. Of course you need to at least save/restore the old CPU policy, and use a subset of it. Another approach would be to migrate this on touch, but that is probably slightly more difficult. The advantage would be that on multiple migrations it would follow. And it would be a bit slower for the initial case. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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: email@kvack.org