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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> 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?

I started with exactly same idea as you described above in the first
RFC, link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91
But this approach turned out to be more complicated than it looked
(see two last emails in thread) and complexity of solution would rise
a lot.

Regards,
Petr H


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