Re: Avoid allocating during interleave from almost full nodes

[Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>]

Peter wrote:
> global fault counter

I hope we avoid frequently updated, widely accessed global
counters.  They tend to create hot cache lines on big NUMA
boxes.

Christoph said that the counters he was suggesting were
node or cpu local.  That sounds good to me.

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