From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Rob Mueller <robm@fastmail.fm>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [resend][PATCH] mm: increase RECLAIM_DISTANCE to 30
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 10:45:16 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1010081044530.30029@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101008090427.GB5327@balbir.in.ibm.com>
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Balbir Singh wrote:
> I am not sure if this makes sense, since RECLAIM_DISTANCE is supposed
> to be a hardware parameter. Could you please help clarify what the
> access latency of a node with RECLAIM_DISTANCE 20 to that of a node
> with RECLAIM_DISTANCE 30 is? Has the hardware definition of reclaim
> distance changed?
10 is the local distance. So 30 should be 3x the latency that a local
access takes.
> I suspect the side effect is the zone_reclaim_mode is not set to 1 on
> bootup for the 2-4 socket machines you mention, which results in
> better VM behaviour?
Right.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-08 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-08 1:48 KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-08 9:04 ` Balbir Singh
2010-10-08 15:45 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2010-10-08 16:59 ` Balbir Singh
2010-10-08 17:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-12 2:11 ` David Rientjes
2010-10-12 2:17 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-12 3:12 ` David Rientjes
2010-10-12 4:07 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-12 6:41 ` Balbir Singh
2010-10-12 1:55 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-08 1:48 KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-25 3:24 KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-25 4:35 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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