From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use numa policy API for boot time policy
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 03:56:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40C12865.9050803@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040605034356.1037d299.ak@suse.de>
Andi Kleen wrote:
>Suggested by Manfred Spraul.
>
>__get_free_pages had a hack to do node interleaving allocation at boot time.
>This patch sets an interleave process policy using the NUMA API for init
>and the idle threads instead. Before entering the user space init the policy
>is reset to default again. Result is the same.
>
>Advantage is less code and removing of a check from a fast path.
>
>Removes more code than it adds.
>
>I verified that the memory distribution after boot is roughly the same.
>
>
>
Does it work for order != 0 allocations? It's important that the big
hash tables do not end up all in node 0. AFAICS alloc_pages_current()
calls interleave_nodes() only for order==0 allocs.
--
Manfred
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-05 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-05 1:43 [PATCH] Use numa policy API for boot time policy Andi Kleen
2004-06-05 1:56 ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2004-06-05 2:18 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-05 2:32 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-06-05 10:22 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-05 10:48 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-09 15:44 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-06-09 15:56 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-09 16:12 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-06-05 10:20 ` Manfred Spraul
2004-06-05 10:33 ` Andi Kleen
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