linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] quicklist shouldn't be proportional to # of CPUs

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Message-ID: <48B46917.6080304@sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:35:35 -0700
From:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org, tokunaga.keiich@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] quicklist shouldn't be proportional to # of
 CPUs

KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>>> +	int node = numa_node_id();
>>> +	struct zone *zones = NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones;
>>> +	int num_cpus_on_node;
>>> +	node_to_cpumask_ptr(cpumask_on_node, node);
>>>  
>>>  	node_free_pages =
>>>  #ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
>>> @@ -38,6 +41,10 @@ static unsigned long max_pages(unsigned 
>>>  		zone_page_state(&zones[ZONE_NORMAL], NR_FREE_PAGES);
>>>  
>>>  	max = node_free_pages / FRACTION_OF_NODE_MEM;
>>> +
>>> +	num_cpus_on_node = cpus_weight_nr(*cpumask_on_node);
>>> +	max /= num_cpus_on_node;
>>> +
>>>  	return max(max, min_pages);
>> Exactly!  And (many thanks to them!) the sparc maintainers have
>> implemented a similar internal function definition for node_to_cpumask_ptr().
> 
> Can I think get your Ack?
> 

Based on code review, sure.  I'll also give it a try on one of my
test machines as soon as I can.

Mike
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