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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	ia64 list <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>,
	pj@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [NUMA] /proc/<pid>/numa_maps to show on which nodes pages reside
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:16:54 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0507111415420.23319@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1121113875.15095.45.camel@localhost>

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Dave Hansen wrote:

> Well, my point was that, if we have two, the numa_maps can be completely
> derived in userspace from the information in memory_maps plus sysfs
> alone.  So, why increase the kernel's complexity with two
> implementations that can do the exact same thing?  Yes, it might make
> the batch scheduler do one more pathname lookup, but that's not the
> kernel's problem :)
> 
> BTW, are you planning on using SPARSEMEM whenever NUMA is enabled in the
> future?  

I am not sure if we will be using SPARSEMEM or not. 

It would not be good to make the numa_maps patch depend on SPARSEMEM since
that is an optional feature right now.


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      reply	other threads:[~2005-07-11 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-08 21:11 Christoph Lameter
2005-07-11 17:20 ` Dave Hansen
2005-07-11 18:02   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-11 20:31     ` Dave Hansen
2005-07-11 21:16       ` Christoph Lameter [this message]

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