From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:56:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [patch] Reset the high water marks in CPUs pcp list In-Reply-To: <1127943168.5046.39.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> Message-ID: References: <20050928105009.B29282@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <1127939185.5046.17.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> <1127943168.5046.39.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rohit Seth Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Mattia Dongili , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, steiner@sgi.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au List-ID: On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Rohit Seth wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 14:09 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Rohit Seth wrote: > > > > > CONFIG_NUMA needs to be defined for that. And then too for flushing the > > > remote pages. Also, when are you flushing the local pcps. Also note > > > that this patch is just bringing the free pages on the pcp list closer > > > to what used to be the number earlier. > > > > What was the reason for the increase of those numbers? > Bugger batch size to possibly get more physical contiguous pages. That > indirectly increased the high water marks for the pcps. I know that Jack and Nick did something with those counts to insure that page coloring effects are avoided. Would you comment? -- 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