Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Paul Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Paul Jackson <[email protected]>
> >
> > This patch provides the implementation and cpuset interface for
> > an alternative memory allocation policy that can be applied to
> > certain kinds of memory allocations, such as the page cache (file
> > system buffers) and some slab caches (such as inode caches).
> >
> > ...
> >
> > A new per-cpuset file, "memory_spread", is defined. This is
> > a boolean flag file, containing a "0" (off) or "1" (on).
> > By default it is off, and the kernel allocation placement
> > is unchanged. If it is turned on for a given cpuset (write a
> > "1" to that cpusets memory_spread file) then the alternative
> > policy applies to all tasks in that cpuset.
>
> I'd have thought it would be saner to split these things apart:
> "slab_spread", "pagecache_spread", etc.
This, please. It impacts the design of the whole thing.
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