Re: [PATCH 1/8] THP: Use real address for NUMA policy

[Ingo Molnar]

* Alex Thorlton <athorlton@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Robin,
> > 
> > I tweaked one of our other tests to behave pretty much exactly as I
> > - malloc a large array
> > - Spawn a specified number of threads
> > - Have each thread touch small, evenly spaced chunks of the array (e.g.
> >   for 128 threads, the array is divided into 128 chunks, and each thread
> >   touches 1/128th of each chunk, dividing the array into 16,384 pieces)
> 
> Forgot to mention that the threads don't touch their chunks of memory
> concurrently, i.e. thread 2 has to wait for thread 1 to finish first.
> This is important to note, since the pages won't all get stuck on the
> first node without this behavior.

Could you post the testcase please?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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