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Message-ID: <6599ad830609201653g4f44a4frb308eaeb63f83d2a@mail.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:53:30 -0700
From:	"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com>
To:	"Paul Jackson" <pj@....com>
Cc:	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, clameter@....com, npiggin@...e.de,
	ckrm-tech@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rohitseth@...gle.com, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] [patch00/05]: Containers(V2)- Introduction

On 9/20/06, Paul Jackson <pj@....com> wrote:
>
> The way you "associate" a file with a cpuset is to have some task in
> that cpuset open that file and touch its pages -- where that task does
> so before any other would be user of the file.

An alternative would be a way of binding files (or directory
hierarchies) to a particular set of memory nodes. Then you wouldn't
need to pre-fault the data. Extended attributes might be one way of
doing it.

>
> Such pre-touching of files is common occurrence on the HPC (High Perf
> Comp.) apps that run on the big honkin NUMA iron where cpusets were
> born.  I'm guessing that someone hosting 5000 web servers would rather
> not deal with that particular hastle.

I'm looking at it from the perspective of job control systems that
need to have a good idea what big datasets the jobs running under them
are touching/sharing.

Paul
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