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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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