Re: [PATCH 01/02] cpuset memory spread slab cache filesys

[Andi Kleen]

On Wednesday 01 March 2006 19:27, Paul Jackson wrote:
> > >  1) Are you content to have such a interleave of these particular file
> > >     i/o slabs triggered by a mm/mempolicy.c option?  Or do you think
> > >     we need some sort of task external API to invoke this policy?
> > 
> > Task external. mempolicy.c has no good way to handle multiple policies
> > like this. I was thinking of a simple sysctl
> 
> No need to implement a sysctl for this.  The current cpuset facility
> should provide just what you want, if I am understanding correctly.

The main reason i'm reluctant to use this is that the cpuset fast path
overhead (e.g. in memory allocators etc.) is quite large and I wouldn't like 
to recommend people to enable all this overhead by default just to get 
more useful dcache/inode behaviour on small NUMA systems.

-Andi
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