From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:57:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: libnuma interleaving oddness In-Reply-To: <20060829231545.GY5195@us.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <20060829231545.GY5195@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nishanth Aravamudan Cc: ak@suse.de, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, lnxninja@us.ibm.com, agl@us.ibm.com List-ID: On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > I don't know if this is a libnuma bug (I extracted out the code from > libnuma, it looked sane; and even reimplemented it in libhugetlbfs for > testing purposes, but got the same results) or a NUMA kernel bug (mbind > is some hairy code...) or a ppc64 bug or maybe not a bug at all. > Regardless, I'm getting somewhat inconsistent behavior. I can provide > more debugging output, or whatever is requested, but I wasn't sure what > to include. I'm hoping someone has heard of or seen something similar? Are you setting the tasks allocation policy before the allocation or do you set a vma based policy? The vma based policies will only work for anonymous pages. -- 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