From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:03:32 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [2.6.24-rc8-mm1][regression?] numactl --interleave=all doesn't works on memoryless node. In-Reply-To: <20080202113045.GA29441@one.firstfloor.org> Message-ID: References: <20080202165054.F491.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20080202090914.GA27723@one.firstfloor.org> <20080202180536.F494.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20080202113045.GA29441@one.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com List-ID: On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > To be honest I've never tried seriously to make 32bit NUMA policy > (with highmem) work well; just kept it at a "should not break" > level. That is because with highmem the kernel's choices at > placing memory are seriously limited anyways so I doubt 32bit > NUMA will ever work very well. Memory policies do not work reliably with config highmem (I have never seen such usage because large memory systems are typically 64 bit which have no highmem, but there are some 32bit numa uses of HIGHMEM) .... Memory policies are only applied to the highest zone. So if a system has highmem on some nodes and not on the others then policies will only be applied if allocations happen to occur on the highmem nodes. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org