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SubjectRe: [patch v3]numa: add a sysctl to control interleave allocation granularity from each node to improve I/O performance
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On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 01:53 +0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > That's what I want to avoid letting each apps to explicitly do it, it's
> > a lot of burden.
>
> Usually apps that set NUMA policy can change it. Most don't anyways.
> If it's just a script with numactl it's easily changed.
Hmm, why should apps set different granularity? the granularity change
is to speed up I/O, which should have the same value for all apps.

> > That's true only workload with heavy I/O wants this. but I don't expect
> > it will harm other workloads.
>
> How do you know?
I can't imagine how it could harm. Some arches can use big pages, big
granularity should already been tested for years.

Thanks,
Shaohua



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