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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.


  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
     [not found] <fa.hmrqqf6.ckie1e@ifi.uio.no>
     [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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