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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Configurable fair allocation zone policy v3
On 12/18/2013 01:17 AM, Johannes Weiner wrote:

> Updated version with your tmpfs __GFP_PAGECACHE parts added and
> documentation, changelog updated as necessary. I remain unconvinced
> that tmpfs pages should be round-robined, but I agree with you that it
> is the conservative change to do for 3.12 and 3.12 and we can figure
> out the rest later. I sure hope that this doesn't drive most people
> on NUMA to disable pagecache interleaving right away as I expect most
> tmpfs workloads to see little to no reclaim and prefer locality... :/

Actually, I suspect most tmpfs heavy workloads will be things like
databases with shared memory segments. Those tend to benefit from
having all of the system's memory bandwidth available. The worker
threads/processes tend to live all over the system, too...

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