Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Feb 2006 09:22:58 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] cpuset memory spread basic implementation |
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* Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
> Ingo wrote: > > Could you perhaps outline two actual use-cases > > that would need two cpusets with different policies, > > on the same box? > > We normally run with different policies, in the same box, on different > cpusets at the same time. But this might be because some cpusets > -need- the memory spreading, and the others that don't are left to the > default policy.
so in practice, the memory spreading is in fact a global setting, used by all cpusets that matter? That seems to support Andrew's observation that our assumptions / defaults are bad, pretty much independently of the workload.
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