Re: [PATCH] Enable hashdist by default on 64bit NUMA

2009-03-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 22:24 +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: Hi David, Hmmm... my bad, I think you need to keep the CONFIG_NUMA there too as there is a TLB usage penalty for non-NUMA systems if you only use CONFIG_64BIT there. Sorry that was my screwup, here's a fixed version. Sounds

[PATCH] Enable hashdist by default on 64bit NUMA

2009-02-26 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi David, Hmmm... my bad, I think you need to keep the CONFIG_NUMA there too as there is a TLB usage penalty for non-NUMA systems if you only use CONFIG_64BIT there. Sorry that was my screwup, here's a fixed version. Anton -- On PowerPC we allocate large boot time hashes on node 0. This

Re: [PATCH] Enable hashdist by default on 64bit NUMA

2009-02-26 Thread David Miller
From: Anton Blanchard an...@samba.org Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:24:32 +1100 On PowerPC we allocate large boot time hashes on node 0. This leads to an imbalance in the free memory, for example on a 64GB box (4 x 16GB nodes): Free memory: Node 0: 97.03% Node 1: 98.54% Node 2: 98.42% Node