From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, steiner@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allocate page caches pages in round robin fasion
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:59:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78290000.1092437985@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75260000.1092431774@flay>
>>> Well, either we're:
>>>
>>> 1. Falling back and putting all our most recent accesses off-node.
>>>
>>> or.
>>>
>>> 2. Not falling back and only able to use one node's memory for any one
>>> (single threaded) app.
>>>
>>> Either situation is crap, though I'm not sure which turd we picked right
>>> now ... I'd have to look at the code again ;-) I thought it was 2, but
>>> I might be wrong.
>>>
>>
>> I'm looking at this now. We are doing 1 currently.
>
> In theory, yes. In practice, I have a feeling kswapd will keep us above
> the level of free memory where we'd fall back to another zone to allocate,
> won't it?
Nope - tested it. Buggered if I can see how that works, but it does ;-)
M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-13 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-12 23:46 [PATCH] allocate page caches pages in round robin fasion Jesse Barnes
2004-08-13 0:13 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-13 0:25 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-13 0:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-13 14:50 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-13 15:59 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-13 16:20 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-13 16:34 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-13 16:47 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-13 17:31 ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-13 21:16 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-13 22:59 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2004-08-14 1:21 ` Nick Piggin
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[not found] ` <fa.cg3cafa.ngi9og@ifi.uio.no>
2004-08-13 17:31 ` Ray Bryant
[not found] <fa.hmbmqn2.d4ef9c@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.g1i2d5e.1kgqq80@ifi.uio.no>
2004-08-13 16:33 ` Ray Bryant
[not found] <2sxuC-429-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-08-13 1:14 ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-13 1:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-13 1:29 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-13 16:04 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-13 17:31 ` Brent Casavant
2004-08-13 20:16 ` Andi Kleen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-12 23:38 Jesse Barnes
2004-08-13 1:36 ` Dave Hansen
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