Re: [PATCH v2] KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob

[Izik Eidus]

On 06/30/2012 01:50 AM, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > > I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and
> > > measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned
> > > to one of nodes with this benchmark:
> > >
> > > http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c
> > >
> > > Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average
> > > were following:
> > >
> > > merge_nodes=1
> > > 2 nodes 1.4%
> > > 4 nodes 1.6%
> > > 8 nodes	1.7%
> > >
> > > merge_nodes=0
> > > 2 nodes	1%
> > > 4 nodes	0.32%
> > > 8 nodes	0.018%
> > ooh, numbers!  Thanks.
> Ok, the standard deviation increases when merging pages from nodes with
> remote distance, that makes sense.  But if that's true, then you would
> restrict either the entire application to local memory with mempolicies or
> cpusets, or you would use mbind() to restrict this memory to that set of
> nodes already so that accesses, even with ksm merging, would have
> affinity.

While you are right for case you write your own custom application,
but I think the KVM guest case is little bit more problomatic in case 
the guest memory must be splitted across serval nodes.

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