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SubjectRe: [RFC 5/8] Make writeout during reclaim cpuset aware
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On Wednesday 17 January 2007 15:20, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Andi wrote:
> > Is there a reason this can't be just done by node, ignoring the cpusets?
>
> This suggestion doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
>
> We're looking to see if a task has dirtied most of the
> pages in the nodes it is allowed to use. If it has, then
> we want to start pushing pages to the disk harder, and
> slowing down the tasks writes.
>
> What would it mean to do this per-node? And why would
> that be better?

With a per node dirty limit you would get essentially the
same effect and it would have the advantage of helping
people who don't configure any cpusets but run on a NUMA
system.

-Andi
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