linux-kernel - Re: [rfc] balance-on-fork NUMA placement

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Date:	Thu, 2 Aug 2007 05:42:01 +0200
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc] balance-on-fork NUMA placement

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 04:40:18PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 31 July 2007 07:41, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > 
> > > I haven't given this idea testing yet, but I just wanted to get some
> > > opinions on it first. NUMA placement still isn't ideal (eg. tasks with
> > > a memory policy will not do any placement, and process migrations of
> > > course will leave the memory behind...), but it does give a bit more
> > > chance for the memory controllers and interconnects to get evenly
> > > loaded.
> > 
> > I didn't think slab honored mempolicies by default? 
> > At least you seem to need to set special process flags.
> 
> It does in the sense that slabs are allocated following policies. If you 
> want to place individual objects then you need to use kmalloc_node().

Is there no way to place objects via policy? At least kernel stack and page
tables on x86-64 should be covered by page allocator policy, so the patch
will still be useful.

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