linux-kernel - Re: [patch v3]numa: add a sysctl to control interleave allocation granularity from each node to improve I/O performance

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Message-ID: <1323912471.22361.431.camel@sli10-conroe>
Date:	Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:27:51 +0800
From:	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	"lee.schermerhorn@...com" <lee.schermerhorn@...com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [patch v3]numa: add a sysctl to control interleave allocation
 granularity from each node to improve I/O performance

On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 01:53 +0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > That's what I want to avoid letting each apps to explicitly do it, it's
> > a lot of burden.
> 
> Usually apps that set NUMA policy can change it. Most don't anyways.
> If it's just a script with numactl it's easily changed.
Hmm, why should apps set different granularity? the granularity change
is to speed up I/O, which should have the same value for all apps.

> > That's true only workload with heavy I/O wants this. but I don't expect
> > it will harm other workloads.
> 
> How do you know?
I can't imagine how it could harm. Some arches can use big pages, big
granularity should already been tested for years.

Thanks,
Shaohua

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