Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261883AbUJ1QCS (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:02:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261741AbUJ1P7S (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:59:18 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:25818 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261742AbUJ1Puh (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:50:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:49:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: "Martin J. Bligh" cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: NUMA node swapping V3 In-Reply-To: <1275120000.1098978003@[10.10.2.4]> Message-ID: References: <1275120000.1098978003@[10.10.2.4]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 793 Lines: 16 On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > I thought even the SGI people were saying this wouldn't actually help you, > due to some workload issues? Our tests show that this does indeed address the issue. There may still be some off node allocation while kswapd is starting up which causes some objections but avoiding these would mean significant modifications to __alloc_pages. This is a fix until a better solution can be found which I would estimate to be 3-6 months down the road given the difficulties getting vm changes into the kernel. - 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/