Re: ZONE_PADDING wastes 4 bytes of the new cacheline

Jesse Barnes
2004-10-22T03:11:04Z

On Thursday, October 21, 2004 8:26 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'd be OK with wapping over to the watermark version, as long as we have
> runtime-settable levels.
>
> But I'd be worried about making the default values anything other than zero
> because nobody seems to be hitting the problems.

Yes, please keep the default at 0 regardless of the algorithm. On the NUMA
systems I'm aware of, an incremental min just doesn't make any sense.

Thanks,
Jesse