Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK

Daniel Phillips
2007-08-06T18:43:41Z

On Monday 06 August 2007 11:31, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > I agree that the reserve pool should be per-node in the end, but I
> > do not think that serves the interest of simplifying the initial
> > patch set. How about a numa performance patch that adds onto the
> > end of Peter's series?
>
> Trouble with keeping this per node is that all the code dealing with
> the reserve needs to keep per-cpu state, which given that the system
> is really crawling at that moment, seems excessive.

It does. I was suggesting that Christoph think about the NUMA part, our
job just to save the world ;-)

Regards,

Daniel