Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:13:48 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] NUMA boot hash allocation interleaving |
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On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 10:59:50AM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > NUMA systems running current Linux kernels suffer from substantial > > inequities in the amount of memory allocated from each NUMA node > > during boot. In particular, several large hashes are allocated > > using alloc_bootmem, and as such are allocated contiguously from > > a single node each. > > Yup, makes a lot of sense to me to stripe these, for the caches that
I originally was a bit worried about the TLB usage, but it doesn't seem to be a too big issue (hopefully the benchmarks weren't too micro though)
> didn't Manfred or someone (Andi?) do this before? Or did that never > get accepted? I know we talked about it a while back.
I talked about it, but never implemented it. I am not aware of any other implementation of this before Brent's.
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