Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:26:54 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations that may be migrated |
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On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 08:05:16 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > That is one possibility. There are people working on fake nodes for containers > > at the moment. If that pans out, the infrastructure would be available to > > create one node per DIMM. > > Right that is a hack in use for one project.
Other projects can use it too. It has the distinct advantage that it works with today's VM.
> We would be adding huge > amounts of VM overhead if we do a node per DIMM.
No we wouldn't.
> So a desktop system with two dimms is to be treated like a NUMA > system?
Could do that. Or make them separate zones.
> Or how else do we deal with the multitude of load balancing > situations that the additional nodes will generate?
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