On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:50:44PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > - if (!s->defrag_ratio || get_cycles() % 1024 > s->defrag_ratio)
> > + if (!s->remote_node_defrag_ratio ||
> > + get_cycles() % 1024 > s->remote_node_defrag_ratio)
>
> 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.
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