linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Allocate memory cgroup structures in local nodes

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Message-ID: <4DC1B47B.1010209@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 04 May 2011 13:18:03 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
CC:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allocate memory cgroup structures in local nodes


> Completely agreed, I think that's how it should be patched instead of only
> touching the alloc_pages() allocation; we care much more about local node
> than whether we're using vmalloc.

Right now the problem is you end up in node 0 always and then run out of 
memory
later on it on a large system. That's the problem I'm trying to solve ASAP

The rest is much less important.


-Andi

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