Re: [patch 02/23] SLUB: Rename NUMA defrag_ratio to remote_node_defrag_ratio

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From: Christoph Lameter

Subject: Re: [patch 02/23] SLUB: Rename NUMA defrag_ratio to remote_node_defrag_ratio

Date: Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 12:16 pm

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:

quoted text> > I cannot figure out what the number of cycles currently showing on the TSC
> > have to do with a ratio :(. I could semi-understand if we were counting up
> > how many cycles were being spent trying to pack objects but that does not
> > appear to be the case. The comment didn't help a whole lot either. It felt
> > like a cost for packing, not a ratio
> 
> It's just a random number generator. And a bad one: lots of arches
> return 0. And I believe at least one of them has some NUMA support.

Do we have a better one? Something with minimal processing overhead? I'd 
be glad to switch it.

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[patch 02/23] SLUB: Rename NUMA defrag_ratio to remote_nod ..., Christoph Lameter, (Tue Nov 6, 6:11 pm)

Re: [patch 02/23] SLUB: Rename NUMA defrag_ratio to remote ..., Mel Gorman, (Thu Nov 8, 7:50 am)

Re: [patch 02/23] SLUB: Rename NUMA defrag_ratio to remote ..., Matt Mackall, (Thu Nov 8, 10:25 am)

Re: [patch 02/23] SLUB: Rename NUMA defrag_ratio to remote ..., Christoph Lameter, (Thu Nov 8, 11:56 am)

Re: [patch 02/23] SLUB: Rename NUMA defrag_ratio to remote ..., Christoph Lameter, (Thu Nov 8, 12:16 pm)

Re: [patch 02/23] SLUB: Rename NUMA defrag_ratio to remote ..., Matt Mackall, (Thu Nov 8, 12:47 pm)

Re: [patch 02/23] SLUB: Rename NUMA defrag_ratio to remote ..., Christoph Lameter, (Thu Nov 8, 1:01 pm)

Re: [patch 02/23] SLUB: Rename NUMA defrag_ratio to remote ..., Mel Gorman, (Thu Nov 8, 1:10 pm)

Re: [patch 02/23] SLUB: Rename NUMA defrag_ratio to remote ..., Matt Mackall, (Thu Nov 8, 2:03 pm)

Re: [patch 02/23] SLUB: Rename NUMA defrag_ratio to remote ..., Christoph Lameter, (Thu Nov 8, 2:28 pm)

Re: [patch 02/23] SLUB: Rename NUMA defrag_ratio to remote ..., Matt Mackall, (Thu Nov 8, 4:08 pm)


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