Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Sep 2002 00:46:02 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] per-zone kswapd process |
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:06:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >>> I still don't see why it's per zone and not per node. It seems strange >>> that a wee little laptop would be running two kswapds? >>> kswapd can get a ton of work done in the development VM and one per >>> node would, I expect, suffice?
On Friday 13 September 2002 06:59, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Machines without observable NUMA effects can benefit from it if it's >> per-zone.
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 07:44:30AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > How?
The notion was that some level of parallelism would be bestowed on the single-node case by using separate worker threads on a per-zone basis, as they won't have more than one node to spawn worker threads for at all.
This notion apparently got shot down somewhere, and I don't care to rise to its defense. I've lost enough debates this release to know better than to try.
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