From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
lee.schermerhorn@hp.com, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [patch v3]numa: add a sysctl to control interleave allocation granularity from each node to improve I/O performance
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:38:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111213203856.GA6312@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1112131412320.27186@router.home>
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 02:12:58PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > I would prefer to add a new policy (INTERLEAVE_MULTI or so) for this
> > instead of a global sysctl, that takes the additional parameter.
>
> That would require a change of all scripts and code that uses
> MPOL_INTERLEAVE. Lets not do that.
Yes, but setting a sysctl would need the same right?
It's not clear that all workloads want this.
With a global switch only you cannot set it case by case.
-Andi
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
lee.schermerhorn@hp.com, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [patch v3]numa: add a sysctl to control interleave allocation granularity from each node to improve I/O performance
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:38:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111213203856.GA6312@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1112131412320.27186@router.home>
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 02:12:58PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > I would prefer to add a new policy (INTERLEAVE_MULTI or so) for this
> > instead of a global sysctl, that takes the additional parameter.
>
> That would require a change of all scripts and code that uses
> MPOL_INTERLEAVE. Lets not do that.
Yes, but setting a sysctl would need the same right?
It's not clear that all workloads want this.
With a global switch only you cannot set it case by case.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-13 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-12 1:58 [patch v3]numa: add a sysctl to control interleave allocation granularity from each node to improve I/O performance Shaohua Li
2011-12-12 1:58 ` Shaohua Li
2011-12-13 19:06 ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-13 19:06 ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-13 20:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-12-13 20:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-12-13 20:38 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2011-12-13 20:38 ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-14 2:33 ` Shaohua Li
2011-12-14 2:33 ` Shaohua Li
2011-12-14 17:53 ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-14 17:53 ` Andi Kleen
2011-12-15 1:27 ` Shaohua Li
2011-12-15 1:27 ` Shaohua Li
2012-01-09 7:31 ` Shaohua Li
2012-01-09 7:31 ` Shaohua Li
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