linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] change global zonelist order on NUMA v2

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704260845160.1382@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:46:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
cc:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, AKPM <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change global zonelist order on NUMA v2

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Thursday 26 April 2007 11:34:17 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > 
> > Changelog from V1 -> V2
> > - sysctl name is changed to be relaxed_zone_order
> > - NORMAL->NORMAL->....->DMA->DMA->DMA order (new ordering) is now default.
> >   NORMAL->DMA->NORMAL->DMA order (old ordering) is optional.
> > - addes boot opttion to set relaxed_zone_order. ia64 is supported now.
> > - Added documentation
> > 
> > patch is against 2.6.21-rc7-mm2. tested on ia64 NUMA box. works well.
> 
> IMHO the change should be default (without any options) unless someone
> can come up with a good reason why not. On x86-64 it should be definitely
> default.

It is not a good idea if node 0 has both DMA and NORMAL memory and normal 
memory is a small fraction of node memory. In that case lots of 
allocations get redirected to node 1.
 
> If there is a good reason on some architecture or machine a user option is also not a 
> good idea, but instead it should be set automatically by that architecture or machine
> on boot.

Right. That was my thinking.

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