Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 12:22:31 -0800
From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] cpuset memory spread basic implementation
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Ingo wrote:
> in other words: the spreading out likely _hurts_ performance in the 
> typical case (which prefers node-locality), but when you are using 
> multiple cpusets you want to opt for fairness between projects, over 
> opportunistic optimizations such as node-local allocations.

Spreading might be useful for this, but it is not what is driving my
interest in it.

My immediate goal is to obtain spreading across the nodes within of a
single cpuset, running a single job, not "fairness between projects."

I have little interest in cross (between) project memory management
beyond simply isolating them from each other.

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