Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269673AbUJMLAs (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:00:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269675AbUJMLAr (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:00:47 -0400 Received: from smtp203.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.129.93]:4184 "HELO smtp203.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269673AbUJMLAq (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:00:46 -0400 Message-ID: <416D0AA4.30701@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:59:48 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Debian/1.7.2-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter CC: Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: NUMA: Patch for node based swapping References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1234 Lines: 37 Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Rik van Riel wrote: > > >>On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Christoph Lameter wrote: >> >> >>>Any other suggestions? >> >>Since this is meant as a stop gap patch, waiting for a real >>solution, and is only relevant for big (and rare) systems, >>it would be an idea to at least leave it off by default. >> >>I think it would be safe to assume that a $100k system has >>a system administrator looking after it, while a $5k AMD64 >>whitebox might not have somebody watching its performance. > > > Ok. Will do that then. Should I submit the patch to Andrew? > I can't see the harm in sending it after 2.6.9 if it defaults to off (maybe also make it CONFIG_NUMA). OTOH, if it is going to be painful to remove later on, then maybe leave it local to your tree. It's true that I have something a bit more sophisticated in the pipe, but it is going to be an uphill battle to get it and everything it depends on merged - so don't count on it for 2.6.10 :P - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/