Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jun 2004 23:00:40 -0700 | | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Permit inode & dentry hash tables to be allocated > MAX_ORDER size |
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>> Allocating the big-assed hashes out of bootmem seems much cleaner to me, >> at least ... > > Machines big enough that such big hashes make sense are probably NUMA. > And on NUMA systems you imho should rather use node interleaving vmalloc(), > not a bit physical allocation on a specific node for these hashes. > This will avoid memory controller hot spots and avoid the problem completely. > Likely it will perform better too.
I thought Manfred already fixed all that up, didn't he?
M.
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