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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: clameter@sgi.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Avoid allocating during interleave from almost full nodes
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 09:06:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061108090644.f23d37de.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1162999085.14238.17.camel@twins>

Peter wrote:
> global fault counter

I hope we avoid frequently updated, widely accessed global
counters.  They tend to create hot cache lines on big NUMA
boxes.

Christoph said that the counters he was suggesting were
node or cpu local.  That sounds good to me.

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                  Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.925.600.0401

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-08 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-03 20:58 Avoid allocating during interleave from almost full nodes Christoph Lameter
2006-11-03 21:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-03 22:10   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-03 22:31     ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-04  0:28       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-04  0:58         ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-06 16:53           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-06 19:59             ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-06 20:12               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-06 20:24                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-06 20:31                   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-06 20:42                     ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-06 20:58                       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-06 21:20                         ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-06 21:42                           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-04  1:26       ` Paul Jackson
2006-11-04  1:42         ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-04 10:51           ` Paul Jackson
2006-11-06 16:56             ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-08 10:21               ` Paul Jackson
2006-11-08 15:18                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-11-08 17:06                   ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2006-11-08 17:09                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-11-08 17:21                       ` Paul Jackson
2006-11-08 17:40                         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-12-01  7:51               ` Paul Jackson
2006-12-01  7:59                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-01 16:27                 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-04 10:35   ` CTL_UNNUMBERED and killing sys_sysctl Eric W. Biederman

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