On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:45:35AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As Martin wrote, when he submitted this patch: > > > The motivation for this patch is for setting up High Performance > > > Computing jobs, where initial memory placement is very important to > > > overall performance. > > > > Any left over cache is wrong, for this situation. > > So... Cannot the applicaiton remove all its pagecache with posix_fadvise() > prior to exitting?
I think Paul's referring to pagecache (as well as other caches) that are on the node from other uses, not necessarily another HPC job that has recently terminated. mh -- Martin Hicks || Silicon Graphics Inc. || [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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/
