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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>,
	Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Make transparent hugepages cpuset aware
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:37:36 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1306201334460.24145@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371697844.5739.29.camel@marge.simpson.net>

On Thu, 20 Jun 2013, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> > I'm suspecting that you're referring to enlarged rss because of 
> > khugepaged's max_ptes_none and because you're abusing the purpose of 
> > cpusets for containerization.
> 
> Why is containerization an abuse?  What's wrong with renting out chunks
> of a big box farm on the fly like a task motel?  If a realtime customer
> checks in, he's not gonna be thrilled about sharing a room.
> 

We "abused" cpusets for containerization for years, I'm not implying any 
negative connotation to it, see the 
Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets document that I wrote.  It 
doesn't suggest that we should be controlling thp through cpusets; if he's 
complaining about static binaries where he can't use a malloc hook then 
why not make it per-process so users don't have to configure cpusets to 
control it?

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-20 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-11 16:14 Alex Thorlton
2013-06-11 22:20 ` David Rientjes
2013-06-18 16:45   ` Alex Thorlton
2013-06-19  0:01     ` David Rientjes
2013-06-19  9:32       ` Robin Holt
2013-06-19 21:24         ` David Rientjes
2013-06-20  2:27           ` Robin Holt
2013-06-20  2:43             ` David Rientjes
2013-06-20  3:10               ` Mike Galbraith
2013-06-20 20:37                 ` David Rientjes [this message]
2013-07-29 19:42                   ` Alex Thorlton
2013-06-20  3:34           ` Li Zefan

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