From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:59:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] NUMA boot hash allocation interleaving Message-Id: <9250000.1103050790@flay> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Brent Casavant , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de > NUMA systems running current Linux kernels suffer from substantial > inequities in the amount of memory allocated from each NUMA node > during boot. In particular, several large hashes are allocated > using alloc_bootmem, and as such are allocated contiguously from > a single node each. Yup, makes a lot of sense to me to stripe these, for the caches that are global (ie inodes, dentries, etc). Only question I'd have is didn't Manfred or someone (Andi?) do this before? Or did that never get accepted? I know we talked about it a while back. M,