Re: Manfreds patch to distribute boot allocations across nodes

[Martin Hicks]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:07:32AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >  > Should this not search for the emptiest node?
> > 
> >  Allocating things round robin avoids a hot node where everything ends up
> >  being allocated.
> 
> Have you any performance measurements for this patch?

Any suggestions on what benchmark to run?

I tried the patch on Altix and saw similar balancing that Anton showed.
The machine was a 64-way (32 node) machine with 256GB RAM.

mh

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