linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: group info caches set to SLAB_MEM

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Message-ID: <20111120033534.GH4130@thunk.org>
Date:	Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:35:34 -0500
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Amit Sahrawat <amit.sahrawat83@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: group info caches set to SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flags.

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 03:29:34PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> If there is convincing data that suggests it's helpful on your hardware, 
> then it would make a good case to merge your patch so users don't need to 
> set their own mempolicies that do this.  They'll just need to mount 
> cpusets and enable cpuset.memory_spread_slab.

>From Namjae and Amit have stated, they don't have access to any NUMA
hardware.  If I had to guess they are students or people who are
trying to start a Linux development team at some company or research
institute, and have decided to start by sending cleanup patches.

	       	    	       	     	- Ted
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