From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:49:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: NUMA node swapping V3 In-Reply-To: <1275120000.1098978003@[10.10.2.4]> Message-ID: References: <1275120000.1098978003@[10.10.2.4]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > I thought even the SGI people were saying this wouldn't actually help you, > due to some workload issues? Our tests show that this does indeed address the issue. There may still be some off node allocation while kswapd is starting up which causes some objections but avoiding these would mean significant modifications to __alloc_pages. This is a fix until a better solution can be found which I would estimate to be 3-6 months down the road given the difficulties getting vm changes into the kernel. -- 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