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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, dgc@sgi.com, steiner@sgi.com, Simon.Derr@bull.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clameter@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] cpuset memory spread basic implementation
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 11:23:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060206102337.GA3359@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602061116.44040.ak@suse.de>


* Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> On Monday 06 February 2006 11:11, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > Of course there might be some corner cases where using local memory 
> > > for caching is still better (like mmap file IO), but my guess is that 
> > > it isn't a good default.
> > 
> > /tmp is almost certainly one where local memory is better.
> 
> Not sure. What happens if someone writes a 1GB /tmp file on a 1GB 
> node?

well, if the pagecache is filled on a node above a certain ratio then 
one would have to spread it out forcibly. But otherwise, try to keep 
things as local as possible, because that will perform best. This is 
different from the case Paul's patch is addressing: workloads which are 
known to be global (and hence spreading out is the best-performing 
allocation).

(for which problem i suggested a per-mount/directory/file 
locality-of-reference attribute in another post.)

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-06 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-04  7:19 [PATCH 1/5] cpuset memory spread basic implementation Paul Jackson
2006-02-04  7:19 ` [PATCH 2/5] cpuset memory spread page cache implementation and hooks Paul Jackson
2006-02-04 23:49   ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-05  1:42     ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-05  1:54       ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-05  3:28         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-05  5:06           ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-05  6:08             ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-05  6:15               ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-05  6:28                 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06  0:20                 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06  5:51                 ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06  7:14                   ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-02-06  7:42                     ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-02-06  7:51                       ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-02-06 17:32                         ` Pekka Enberg
2006-02-04  7:19 ` [PATCH 3/5] cpuset memory spread slab cache implementation Paul Jackson
2006-02-04 23:49   ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-05  3:37     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-04  7:19 ` [PATCH 4/5] cpuset memory spread slab cache optimizations Paul Jackson
2006-02-04 23:50   ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-05  3:18     ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-04 23:50   ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-05  4:10     ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-04  7:19 ` [PATCH 5/5] cpuset memory spread slab cache hooks Paul Jackson
2006-02-06  4:37   ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-04 23:49 ` [PATCH 1/5] cpuset memory spread basic implementation Andrew Morton
2006-02-05  3:35   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-06  4:33   ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-06  5:50     ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06  6:02       ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-06  6:17         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-06  7:22           ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06  7:43             ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-06  8:19               ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06  8:22                 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-06  8:40                   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-06  9:03                     ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06  9:09                       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-06  9:27                         ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06  9:37                           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-06 20:22                     ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06  8:47                   ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06  8:51                     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-06  9:09                       ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06 10:09                   ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-06 10:11                     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-06 10:16                       ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-06 10:23                         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-02-06 10:35                           ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-06 14:42                           ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06 14:35                         ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06 16:48                           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-06 17:11                             ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-06 18:21                               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-06 18:36                                 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-06 18:43                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-06 18:48                                     ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-06 19:19                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-06 20:27                                       ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06 18:43                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-06 20:01                                     ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06 20:05                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-06 20:27                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-06 20:41                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-06 20:49                                             ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-06 21:07                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-06 22:10                                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-06 23:29                                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-06 23:45                                         ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-07  0:19                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-07  1:17                                             ` David Chinner
2006-02-07  9:31                                             ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-07 11:53                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-07 12:14                                                 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-07 12:30                                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-07 12:43                                                     ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-07 12:58                                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-07 13:14                                                         ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-07 14:11                                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-07 14:23                                                             ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-07 17:11                                                               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-07 17:29                                                                 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-07 17:39                                                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-07 17:10                                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-07 17:28                                                         ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-07 17:42                                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-07 17:51                                                             ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-07 17:06                                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-02-07 17:26                                                       ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-04 23:50 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-04 23:57   ` David S. Miller
2006-02-06  4:37 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-06  6:02   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-06  6:56   ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06  7:08     ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-06  7:39       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-06  8:22         ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06  8:35         ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06  9:32       ` Paul Jackson
2006-02-06  9:57         ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-06  9:18 ` Simon Derr

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