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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] slub: default min_partial to at least highest cpus per node
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:35:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49DBB929.4080205@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0904071316460.21748@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> 
>>> If you think that's acceptable, I'd be just as satisfied with that approach
>>> as long as all archs have valid cpu_to_node() mappings at the time of
>>> CPU_UP_PREPARE.
>> Well, that doesn't change the current behavior, so sure, I think it's
>> acceptable. And if the new defaults seem reasonable enough, we can probably
>> get rid of the tunable altogether.
> 
> I'd like to remove MAX_PARTIAL and replace it with nr_cpu_ids.

Yeah, something more dynamic makes sense. But we probably need to do 
ilog2(nr_cpu_ids) or something; otherwise we will have very long partial 
lists on big iron machines (think 4096 cpus here).

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-07 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-06  0:52 [patch] slub: default min_partial to at least highest cpus per node David Rientjes
2009-04-07 18:58 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-04-07 19:09   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-04-07 19:44     ` David Rientjes
2009-04-07 19:54       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-04-07 20:09         ` David Rientjes
2009-04-07 20:11           ` Pekka Enberg
2009-04-07 20:22             ` David Rientjes
2009-04-07 20:35               ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2009-04-07 20:43                 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-07 20:48                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-04-07 21:31                     ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-07 21:46                       ` David Rientjes
2009-04-07 21:48                         ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-07 22:03                           ` David Rientjes
2009-04-13 18:07                             ` Christoph Lameter
2009-04-07 22:01                 ` David Rientjes

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