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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] slub: enforce cpuset restrictions for cpu slabs
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 17:14:06 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903031713200.4767@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6599ad830903031653t231eb921md60a1aa21effa87b@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Paul Menage wrote:

> > That would help for cpusets that are looking for NUMA optimizations (i.e.
> > probably long-lived objects with local affinity) but would not ensure
> > memory isolation from tasks in other exclusive cpusets from allocating on
> > my slab.
> 
> That would be the sysadmin's choice, if they set these other cpusets
> with slab_hardwall=false.
> 
> Presumably in most cases all cpusets would have slab_hardwall set to
> the same value.
> 

True, and this would have to be clearly documented in 
Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.

Christoph, would a `slab_hardwall' cpuset setting address your concerns?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-04  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-03  4:50 [patch 1/2] cpusets: replace zone allowed functions with node allowed David Rientjes
2009-03-03  4:50 ` [patch 2/2] slub: enforce cpuset restrictions for cpu slabs David Rientjes
2009-03-03 16:47   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-03-03 17:19     ` David Rientjes
2009-03-03 18:46       ` Christoph Lameter
2009-03-03 19:05         ` David Rientjes
2009-03-03 20:14           ` Christoph Lameter
2009-03-03 21:35             ` David Rientjes
2009-03-03 21:55               ` Paul Menage
2009-03-03 22:29                 ` David Rientjes
2009-03-04  0:53                   ` Paul Menage
2009-03-04  1:14                     ` David Rientjes [this message]
2009-03-04 15:23                       ` Christoph Lameter
2009-03-04 18:06                         ` David Rientjes
2009-03-03 16:36 ` [patch 1/2] cpusets: replace zone allowed functions with node allowed Christoph Lameter

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