Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 5/8] x86_64 without ZONE_DMA | Date | Sat, 8 Jul 2006 03:00:16 +0200 |
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On Saturday 08 July 2006 02:42, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > I don't think the savings from this are enough to bother > > the user with such an obscure config option. > > The savings are not only from the code paths. The VM itself is cleaner and > the balancing issues are not that troublesome anymore.
Doesn't help - it has to be fixed anyways for NUMA and other architectures.
Also in my experience empty zones are not a significant problem for VM balancing.
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