Re: [patch v3]numa: add a sysctl to control interleave allocationgranularity from each node to improve I/O performance

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, Andi Kleen wrote:

> I would prefer to add a new policy (INTERLEAVE_MULTI or so) for this
> instead of a global sysctl, that takes the additional parameter.

That would require a change of all scripts and code that uses
MPOL_INTERLEAVE. Lets not do that.

> Also I don't like having more per task state. Could you compute this
> from the address instead even for the process policy case?

That sounds good.

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