From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265193AbUBIQ2Q (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:28:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265242AbUBIQ2Q (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:28:16 -0500 Received: from galileo.bork.org ([66.11.174.156]:42733 "HELO galileo.bork.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265193AbUBIQ2P (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:28:15 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:28:14 -0500 From: Martin Hicks To: Andrew Morton Cc: Anton Blanchard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Manfreds patch to distribute boot allocations across nodes Message-ID: <20040209162814.GP21486@localhost> References: <20040207042559.GP19011@krispykreme> <20040206210428.17ee63db.akpm@osdl.org> <20040207090634.GQ19011@krispykreme> <20040207110732.4c6ced3f.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040207110732.4c6ced3f.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:07:32AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > > > Should this not search for the emptiest node? > > > > Allocating things round robin avoids a hot node where everything ends up > > being allocated. > > Have you any performance measurements for this patch? Any suggestions on what benchmark to run? I tried the patch on Altix and saw similar balancing that Anton showed. The machine was a 64-way (32 node) machine with 256GB RAM. mh -- Martin Hicks Wild Open Source Inc. mort@wildopensource.com 613-266-2296