On Tue 10-10-17 08:39:47, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 10/10/2017 07:57 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > >> But, let's be honest, this leaves us with an option that nobody is ever > >> going to turn on. IOW, nobody except a very small portion of our users > >> will ever see any benefit from this. > > But aren't those small groups who would like to squeeze every single > > cycle out from the page allocator path the targeted audience? > > They're the reason we started looking at this. They also care the most. > > But, the cost of these stats, especially we get more and more cores in a > NUMA node is really making them show up in profiles. It would be nice > to get rid of them there, too. I am not opposing to the auto mode. I am just not sure it is a safe default and I also think that we should add this on top if it is really needed. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
