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

[Shaohua Li]

On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 04:38 +0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 02:12:58PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yes, but setting a sysctl would need the same right?
> 
> It's not clear that all workloads want this.
> 
> With a global switch only you cannot set it case by case.
That's what I want to avoid letting each apps to explicitly do it, it's
a lot of burden.
That's true only workload with heavy I/O wants this. but I don't expect
it will harm other workloads.

>> 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.
the process policy case doesn't give an address for allocation.

Thanks,
Shaohua

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