Re: Avoid allocating during interleave from almost full nodes

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 09:06 -0800, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Peter wrote:
> > global fault counter
> 
> I hope we avoid frequently updated, widely accessed global
> counters.  They tend to create hot cache lines on big NUMA
> boxes.
> 
> Christoph said that the counters he was suggesting were
> node or cpu local.  That sounds good to me.

Very true indeed, I was just hoping we could come up with 1 vm-time; but
perhaps the local vs global thing will keep us from that.


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