Re: [patch 2/2] cpusets: add interleave_over_allowed option

Paul Jackson
2007-10-31T00:29:36Z

David wrote:
> Of course they have specific affinity needs, that's why they used
> mempolicies.

No. Good grief. If they are just looking for some set of memory
banks, not to other node-specific hardware, then they might not need
a specific node.

Consider for example a multi-threaded, compute bound, long running
scientific computation that has a substantial and fussy memory layout.
Remapping it from one cpuset to another having the same NUMA topology
may well work fine, once its memory caches recover. Reverting it to
the lowest common denominator MPOL_DEFAULT policy because (Choice C) it
no longer has access to its initial nodes might devastate its
performance.

pj wrote:
> I sure wish I knew what real world, actual, not hypothetical, situations
> were motivating this.

I'm still wishing ...

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