From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751086Ab2LQCxm (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:53:42 -0500 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:38445 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750819Ab2LQCxl (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:53:41 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:53:42 -0800 (PST) From: Hugh Dickins X-X-Sender: hugh@eggly.anvils To: Linus Torvalds cc: Mel Gorman , Peter Zijlstra , Andrea Arcangeli , Ingo Molnar , Rik van Riel , Johannes Weiner , Hugh Dickins , Thomas Gleixner , Paul Turner , Hillf Danton , David Rientjes , Lee Schermerhorn , Alex Shi , Srikar Dronamraju , Aneesh Kumar , Andrew Morton , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , LKML Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Automatic NUMA Balancing V11 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20121212100338.GS1009@suse.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 16 Dec 2012, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:03 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > > This is a pull request for "Automatic NUMA Balancing V11". The list > > Ok, guys, I've pulled this and pushed out. There were some conflicts > with both the VM changes and with the scheduler tree, but they were > pretty small and looked simple, so I fixed them up and hope they all > work. Great! Thank you. Rejoicing on all sides. One small merge fixup follows under new subject. Hugh > > Has anybody tested the impact on single-node systems? If distros > enable this by default (and it does have 'default y', which is a big > no-no for new features - I undid that part) then there will be tons of > people running this without actually having multiple sockets. Does it > gracefully avoid pointless overheads for this case? > > Anyway, hopefully we'll have a more real numa balancing for 3.9, and > this is still considered a reasonable base for that work. > > Linus