Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Feb 2006 20:33:58 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] cpuset memory spread basic implementation |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote: > > > > From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> > > > > This patch provides the implementation and cpuset interface for > > an alternative memory allocation policy that can be applied to > > certain kinds of memory allocations, such as the page cache (file > > system buffers) and some slab caches (such as inode caches). > > > > ... > > > > A new per-cpuset file, "memory_spread", is defined. This is > > a boolean flag file, containing a "0" (off) or "1" (on). > > By default it is off, and the kernel allocation placement > > is unchanged. If it is turned on for a given cpuset (write a > > "1" to that cpusets memory_spread file) then the alternative > > policy applies to all tasks in that cpuset. > > I'd have thought it would be saner to split these things apart: > "slab_spread", "pagecache_spread", etc.
This, please. It impacts the design of the whole thing.
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