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Message-ID: <20140219091959.GD14783@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:19:59 +0100
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ppc: RECLAIM_DISTANCE 10?
On Wed 19-02-14 00:20:21, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2014, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> > > I strongly suspect that the patch is correct since powerpc node distances
> > > are different than the architectures you're talking about and get doubled
> > > for every NUMA domain that the hardware supports.
> >
> > Even if the units of the distance is different on PPC should every NUMA
> > machine have zone_reclaim enabled? That doesn't right to me.
> >
>
> In my experience on powerpc it's very correct, there's typically a
> significant latency in remote access and we don't have the benefit of a
> SLIT that actually defines the locality between proximity domains like we
> do on other architectures.
Interesting. So is the PPC NUMA basically about local vs. very distant?
Should REMOTE_DISTANCE reflect that as well? Or can we have
distance < REMOTE_DISTANCE and it would still make sense to have
zone_reclaim enabled?
[...]
Thanks!
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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