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

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > 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.

Is this a gut feeling or do you have some measurements to back that up? 
Paul worked hard on making all the overhead in critical paths as light as 
possible and from what I can see he did a very good job.



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