From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
hugh@veritas.com, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use MPOL_INTERLEAVE for tmpfs files
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 17:43:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4186E62E.9000609@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.58.0411011901540.77038@kzerza.americas.sgi.com>
Brent Casavant wrote:
> This patch causes memory allocation for tmpfs files to be distributed
> evenly across NUMA machines. In most circumstances today, tmpfs files
> will be allocated on the same node as the task writing to the file.
> In many cases, particularly when large files are created, or a large
> number of files are created by a single task, this leads to a severe
> imbalance in free memory amongst nodes. This patch corrects that
> situation.
Why don't you just use the NUMA API in your application for this? Won't
this hurt any application that uses tmpfs and never leaves a node in its
lifetime, like a short gcc run?
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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
hugh@veritas.com, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use MPOL_INTERLEAVE for tmpfs files
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 17:43:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4186E62E.9000609@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.58.0411011901540.77038@kzerza.americas.sgi.com>
Brent Casavant wrote:
> This patch causes memory allocation for tmpfs files to be distributed
> evenly across NUMA machines. In most circumstances today, tmpfs files
> will be allocated on the same node as the task writing to the file.
> In many cases, particularly when large files are created, or a large
> number of files are created by a single task, this leads to a severe
> imbalance in free memory amongst nodes. This patch corrects that
> situation.
Why don't you just use the NUMA API in your application for this? Won't
this hurt any application that uses tmpfs and never leaves a node in its
lifetime, like a short gcc run?
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-02 1:07 [PATCH] Use MPOL_INTERLEAVE for tmpfs files Brent Casavant
2004-11-02 1:07 ` Brent Casavant
2004-11-02 1:43 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2004-11-02 1:43 ` Dave Hansen
2004-11-02 9:13 ` Andi Kleen
2004-11-02 9:13 ` Andi Kleen
2004-11-02 15:46 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-02 15:46 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-02 15:55 ` Andi Kleen
2004-11-02 15:55 ` Andi Kleen
2004-11-02 16:55 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-02 16:55 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-02 22:17 ` Brent Casavant
2004-11-02 22:17 ` Brent Casavant
2004-11-02 22:51 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-02 22:51 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-03 1:12 ` Brent Casavant
2004-11-03 1:12 ` Brent Casavant
2004-11-03 1:30 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-03 8:44 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-11-03 8:44 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-11-03 9:01 ` Andi Kleen
2004-11-03 9:01 ` Andi Kleen
2004-11-03 16:32 ` Brent Casavant
2004-11-03 16:32 ` Brent Casavant
2004-11-03 21:00 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-03 21:00 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-08 19:58 ` Brent Casavant
2004-11-08 19:58 ` Brent Casavant
2004-11-08 20:57 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-08 20:57 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-09 19:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-11-09 19:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-11-09 20:09 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-09 20:09 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-09 21:08 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-11-09 21:08 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-11-09 22:07 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-09 22:07 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-10 2:41 ` Brent Casavant
2004-11-10 2:41 ` Brent Casavant
2004-11-10 14:20 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-11-10 14:20 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-11-11 19:48 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-11-11 19:48 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-11-11 23:10 ` Brent Casavant
2004-11-11 23:10 ` Brent Casavant
2004-11-15 22:07 ` Brent Casavant
2004-11-15 22:07 ` Brent Casavant
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