Re: Memory policy question for NUMA arch....

From: Chetan Loke
Date: Sat Apr 17 2010 - 11:06:25 EST


Andi,

--- On Sat, 4/17/10, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Memory policy question for NUMA arch....
> To: "Chetan Loke" <generationgnu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: rick.sherm@xxxxxxxxx, andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-numa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010, 6:35 AM
> > I may be wrong but I think
> there's a difference. system-wide run-time default policy is
> M_PREFERRED | M_LOCAL and not Interleaving.
>
> The policy at early kernel boot time (before mounting root)
> is interleaving.
>
Yup.

PS - What do you think about __get_free_policy_pages(..)? Good/bad idea?

> -Andi
>

thanks
Chetan Loke



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