[Sorry for late reply, conferencing last 2 weeks and now catching up] On Tue 16-05-23 12:30:21, David Hildenbrand wrote: [...] > > And auto-tuning doesn't sound easy. Do you have some idea of how to do > > that? > > If we could avoid instantiating more zones and rather improve existing > mechanisms (PCP), that would be much more preferred IMHO. I'm sure it's not > easy, but that shouldn't stop us from trying ;) Absolutely agreed. Increasing the zone number sounds like a hack to me TBH. It seems like an easier way but it allows more subtle problems later on. E.g. hard to predict per-zone memory consumption and memory reclaim disbalances. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs