On Wednesday 17 January 2007 15:20, Paul Jackson wrote: > Andi wrote: > > Is there a reason this can't be just done by node, ignoring the cpusets? > > This suggestion doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. > > We're looking to see if a task has dirtied most of the > pages in the nodes it is allowed to use. If it has, then > we want to start pushing pages to the disk harder, and > slowing down the tasks writes. > > What would it mean to do this per-node? And why would > that be better?
With a per node dirty limit you would get essentially the same effect and it would have the advantage of helping people who don't configure any cpusets but run on a NUMA system. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
