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Message-ID: <20130815213734.GA28658@sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Aug 2013 16:37:34 -0500
From:	Russ Anderson <rja@....com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memblock, numa: Binary search node id

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 02:06:44PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:46:29 -0700 Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Current early_pfn_to_nid() on arch that support memblock go
> >> over memblock.memory one by one, so will take too many try
> >> near the end.
> >>
> >> We can use existing memblock_search to find the node id for
> >> given pfn, that could save some time on bigger system that
> >> have many entries memblock.memory array.
> >
> > Looks nice.  I wonder how much difference it makes.
> 
> Russ said he would test on his 256 nodes system, but looks he never
> got chance.

I reserved time tonight on a couple big systems to measure
the performance difference.

Thanks,
-- 
Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead  
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc          rja@....com
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