> Because the SLIT on the IBM platform has distances > 20. Looks like IBM > is populating the SLIT on those platforms with "real" values. The HP > bios is not supplying a slit, letting the remote distances default to > 20. That is the threshold for setting zone_reclaim_mode. A patch was > submitted recently to bump the threshold to ~30. Now that vendors are > starting to populate the SLIT with values > 20, we've begun to see the > behavior that you experienced. I think it's intentional by the vendors: they use it a way to make Linux behave like they want. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-numa" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
