linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/31] mm/mpol: Remove NUMA_INTERLEAVE

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Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:59:19 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/31] mm/mpol: Remove NUMA_INTERLEAVE_HIT


* Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:

> Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> writes:
> 
> > Since the NUMA_INTERLEAVE_HIT statistic is useless on its 
> > own; it wants to be compared to either a total of interleave 
> > allocations or to a miss count, remove it.
> >
> > Fixing it would be possible, but since we've gone years 
> > without these statistics I figure we can continue that way.
> >
> > Also NUMA_HIT fully includes NUMA_INTERLEAVE_HIT so users 
> > might switch to using that.
> >
> > This cleans up some of the weird MPOL_INTERLEAVE allocation 
> > exceptions.
> 
> NACK, as already posted several times.
> 
> This breaks the numactl test suite, which is the only way 
> currently to test interleaving.

This patch is not essential to the NUMA series so I've zapped it 
from the patch queue and fixed up the roll-on effects.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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