Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:39:48 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] cpuset memory spread basic implementation |
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On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > The caches on a node are shrunk dynamically see the zone_reclaim > > functionality introduced in 2.6.16-rc2. > > Yes, they're thrown away which is wasteful. If they were spread > around in the first place that often wouldn't be needed.
That would reduce performance for a process running on the node and it would contaminate other nodes that may have other processes runing that also want to have optimal access to their files.
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