Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:07:29 -0600 | From | Brent Casavant <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Use MPOL_INTERLEAVE for tmpfs files |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> The first (against 2.6.10-rc1-mm5) being my reversion of NULL sbinfo > in shmem.c, to make it easier for others to add things into sbinfo > without having to worry about NULL cases. So that goes back to > allocating an sbinfo even for the internal mount: I've rounded up to > L1_CACHE_BYTES to avoid false sharing, but even so, please test it out > on your 512-way to make sure I haven't screwed up the scalability we > got before - thanks. If you find it okay, I'll send to akpm soonish.
OK, tried it at 508P (the last 4P had a hardware problem). The performance results are all in line with what we'd accomplished with NULL sbinfo, so the patch is good by me.
Brent
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