Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Fix SLQB on memoryless configurations V2

Mel Gorman
2009-09-22T10:24:12Z

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:21:15PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Mel,
>
> On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 11:05 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > I'm going to punt the decision on this one to Pekka or Nick. My feeling
> > is leave it enabled for NUMA so it can be identified if it gets fixed
> > for some other reason - e.g. the stalls are due to a per-cpu problem as
> > stated by Sachin and SLQB happens to exasperate the problem.
>
> Can I have a tested patch that uses MAX_NUMNODES to allocate the
> structs, please? We can convert SLQB over to per-cpu allocator if the
> memoryless node issue is resolved.
>

Patch set in the process of testing. Should have something in a few
hours.

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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab