On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:40:39AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > Jack Steiner wrote: > > [snip nice detective work] > > >Has anyone else seen this problem? I am considering adding > >a config option to allow a site to control the batch size > >used for per_cpu_pagesets. Are there other ideas that should > >be pursued? > > > > What about using a non power of 2 for the batch? Like 5. > If that helps, then we can make a patch to clamp it to a > good value. At a guess I'd say a power of 2 +/- 1 might be > the way to go. > > Nick > > -- > SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
Sounds reasonable. I'll give it a try & see what happens. -- Thanks Jack Steiner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 651-683-5302 Principal Engineer SGI - Silicon Graphics, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
