On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 09:42 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > I have this mad idea that you can divide a 128GB machine up into 256 fake > NUMA nodes, then you use each "node" as a 512MB unit of memory allocation. > So that 4.5GB job would be placed within an exclusive cpuset which has nine > "mems" (what are these called?) and voila: the job has a hard 4.5GB limit, > no kernel changes needed. Is this similar to Mel Gorman's zone-based anti-fragmentation approach? I thought he was discouraged from pursuing that at the VM summit. -- Dave
