linux-kernel - Re: Memory policy question for NUMA arch....

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Message-ID: <398794.47398.qm@web111920.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
Date:	Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:59:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Chetan Loke <generationgnu@...oo.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	rick.sherm@...oo.com, andi@...stfloor.org,
	linux-numa@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	generationugnu@...oo.com
Subject: Re: Memory policy question for NUMA arch....

Andi,

--- On Sat, 4/17/10, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:

> From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
> Subject: Re: Memory policy question for NUMA arch....
> To: "Chetan Loke" <generationgnu@...oo.com>
> Cc: rick.sherm@...oo.com, andi@...stfloor.org, linux-numa@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010, 6:35 AM
> > I may be wrong but I think
> there's a difference. system-wide run-time default policy is
> M_PREFERRED | M_LOCAL and not Interleaving.
> 
> The policy at early kernel boot time (before mounting root)
> is interleaving.
> 
Yup. 

PS - What do you think about __get_free_policy_pages(..)? Good/bad idea?

> -Andi
> 

thanks
Chetan Loke


      
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