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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, vmacache: Add kconfig VMACACHE_SHIFT
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:46:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1421912761.4903.22.camel@stgolabs.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1421908189-18938-1-git-send-email-chaowang@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 14:29 +0800, WANG Chao wrote:
> Add a new kconfig option VMACACHE_SHIFT (as a power of 2) to specify the
> number of slots vma cache has for each thread. Range is chosen 0-4 (1-16
> slots) to consider both overhead and performance penalty. Default is 2
> (4 slots) as it originally is, which provides good enough balance.
> 

Nack. I don't feel comfortable making scalability features of core code
configurable.

Thanks,
Davidlohr



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  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-22  7:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-22  6:29 [PATCH] mm, vmacache: Add kconfig VMACACHE_SHIFT WANG Chao
2015-01-22  7:46 ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
2015-01-22  7:57   ` WANG Chao
2015-01-22 16:19     ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-01-22 16:22       ` Rik van Riel
2015-01-23  5:14         ` WANG Chao
2015-01-24  1:02           ` Sasha Levin
2015-01-22 15:45 ` Vlastimil Babka

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