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    SubjectRe: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 4/7] UBC: syscalls (user interface)
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    On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 09:42 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:45:48 -0700
    > Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> wrote:
    >
    > > On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 12:08 +0400, Andrey Savochkin wrote:
    > > >
    > > > A) Have separate memory management for each container,
    > > > with separate buddy allocator, lru lists, page replacement mechanism.
    > > > That implies a considerable overhead, and the main challenge there
    > > > is sharing of pages between these separate memory managers.
    > >
    > > Hold on here for just a sec...
    > >
    > > It is quite possible to do memory management aimed at one container
    > > while that container's memory still participates in the main VM.
    > >
    > > There is overhead here, as the LRU scanning mechanisms get less
    > > efficient, but I'd rather pay a penalty at LRU scanning time than divide
    > > up the VM, or coarsely start failing allocations.
    > >
    >
    > I have this mad idea that you can divide a 128GB machine up into 256 fake
    > NUMA nodes, then you use each "node" as a 512MB unit of memory allocation.
    > So that 4.5GB job would be placed within an exclusive cpuset which has nine
    > "mems" (what are these called?) and voila: the job has a hard 4.5GB limit,
    > no kernel changes needed.
    >
    Sounds like an interesting idea. Will have to depend on something like
    memory hot-plug to get the things move around...

    -rohit

    > Unfortunately this is not testable because numa=fake=256 doesn't come even
    > vaguely close to working. Am trying to get that fixed.

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