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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 01:49:52PM +0200, Petr Holasek wrote:
> Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_nodes
> which control merging pages across different numa nodes.
> When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged,
> otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior).

Is it conceivable that admins may (in the future) want to merge only
across nodes that are below a given distance threshold?

I'm not asking to implement this, just whether the knob can be
introduced such that it's future-compatible. Make it default to a
Very High Number and only allow setting it to 0 for now e.g.? And
name it max_node_merge_distance (I'm bad at names)?

What do you think?


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