Andi/Lee/Tim/Scott/Cliff/Jiahua, Thankx a lot for your valuable inputs/advices. __ Tharindu R Bamunuarachchi. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Because the SLIT on the IBM platform has distances > 20. ÂLooks like IBM >> is populating the SLIT on those platforms with "real" values. ÂThe HP >> bios is not supplying a slit, letting the remote distances default to >> 20. ÂThat is the threshold for setting zone_reclaim_mode. ÂA patch was >> submitted recently to bump the threshold to ~30. ÂNow 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
