Re: [PATCH] numa: mempolicy: dynamic interleave map for system init.

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:17:01 +0900
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> wrote:

> This is an alternative approach to the MPOL_INTERLEAVE across online
> nodes as the system init policy. Andi suggested it might be worthwhile
> trying to do this dynamically rather than as a command line option, so
> that's what this tries to do.
> 
> With this, the online nodes are sized and packed in to an interleave map
> if they're large enough for interleave to be worthwhile. I arbitrarily
> chose 16MB as the node size to enable interleaving, but perhaps someone
> has a better figure in mind?
> 
> In the case where all of the nodes are smaller than that, the largest
> node is selected and placed in to the map by itself (if they're all the
> same size, the first online node gets used).
> 
> If people prefer this approach, the previous patch adding mpolinit can be
> dropped.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

Well I took silence as assent.

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