linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 10/26] mm, mpol: Make mempolicy home-node aware

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1203191029090.19189@router.home>
Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:31:47 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Dan Smith <danms@...ibm.com>,
	Bharata B Rao <bharata.rao@...il.com>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 10/26] mm, mpol: Make mempolicy home-node aware

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > No they wont work the same way as before. Applications may be relying on
> > MPOL_DEFAULT behavior now expecting node local allocations. The home-node
> > functionality would cause a difference in behavior because it would
> > perform remote node allocs when a thread has been moved to a different
> > socket. The changes also cause migrations that may cause additional
> > latencies as well as change the location of memory in surprising ways for
> > the applications
>
> Still not sure what you're suggesting though, you argue to keep the
> default what it is, this is in direct conflict with making the default
> do something saner for most of the time.

MPOL_DEFAULT is a certain type of behavior right now that applications
rely on. If you change that then these applications will no longer work as
expected.

MPOL_DEFAULT is currently set to be the default policy on bootup. You can
change that of course and allow setting MPOL_DEFAULT manually for
applications that rely on old behavor. Instead set the default behavior on
bootup for MPOL_HOME_NODE.

So the default system behavior would be MPOL_HOME_NODE but it could be
overriding by numactl to allow old apps to run as they are used to run.

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