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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] page reclaim throttle take2
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:47:17 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0802270045400.31372@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47C51856.7060408@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Balbir Singh wrote:

> Let's forget node hotplug for the moment, but what if someone
> 
> 1. Changes the machine configuration and adds more nodes, do we expect the
> kernel to be recompiled? Or is it easier to update /etc/sysctl.conf?
> 2. Uses fake NUMA nodes and increases/decreases the number of nodes across
> reboots. Should the kernel be recompiled?
> 

That is why the proposal was made to make this a static configuration 
option, such as CONFIG_NUM_RECLAIM_THREADS_PER_NODE, that will handle both 
situations.

> I am afraid it doesn't. Consider as you scale number of CPU's with the same
> amount of memory, we'll end up making the reclaim problem worse.
> 

The benchmark that have been posted suggest that memory locality is more 
important than lock contention, as I've already mentioned.

		David

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-27  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-26  2:32 KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-26 21:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-02-27  0:50   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-27  4:26   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-27  4:27     ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-27  4:45       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-27  5:00         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-27  5:04           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-27  5:03             ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-27  5:13               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-27  5:19               ` David Rientjes
2008-02-27  5:33                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-27  5:47                   ` David Rientjes
2008-02-27  5:48                     ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-27  6:09                       ` David Rientjes
2008-02-27  7:10                         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-27  7:19                           ` David Rientjes
2008-02-27  7:51                             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-27  7:56                               ` David Rientjes
2008-02-27  8:09                                 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-27 15:30                             ` Rik van Riel
2008-02-27  7:59                         ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-27  8:47                           ` David Rientjes [this message]
2008-02-27  9:01                             ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-27  9:44                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-02-27  6:52                       ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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