From: Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Manfreds patch to distribute boot allocations across nodes
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:28:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040209162814.GP21486@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040207110732.4c6ced3f.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:07:32AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Should this not search for the emptiest node?
> >
> > Allocating things round robin avoids a hot node where everything ends up
> > being allocated.
>
> Have you any performance measurements for this patch?
Any suggestions on what benchmark to run?
I tried the patch on Altix and saw similar balancing that Anton showed.
The machine was a 64-way (32 node) machine with 256GB RAM.
mh
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Martin Hicks Wild Open Source Inc.
mort@wildopensource.com 613-266-2296
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-09 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-07 4:25 Manfreds patch to distribute boot allocations across nodes Anton Blanchard
2004-02-07 5:04 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-07 9:06 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-02-07 19:07 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-09 16:28 ` Martin Hicks [this message]
2004-02-09 17:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-09 20:55 ` Randy.Dunlap
[not found] <20040207042559.GP19011@krispykreme.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <20040206210428.17ee63db.akpm@osdl.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2004-02-07 5:33 ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-07 7:35 ` Martin J. Bligh
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