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| author |   Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> | 2009-03-31 15:23:19 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-04-01 08:59:14 -0700 |
| commit | c2fdf3a9b2d52842808a8e551b53b55dd9b45030 (patch) | |
| tree | 71affdf51cbf97147ebf3bf41814027c7b63b72a /mm | |
| parent | mm: fix proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies "breakage" (diff) | |
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mm: enable hashdist by default on 64bit NUMA
On PowerPC we allocate large boot time hashes on node 0. This leads to an
imbalance in the free memory, for example on a 64GB box (4 x 16GB nodes):
Free memory:
Node 0: 97.03%
Node 1: 98.54%
Node 2: 98.42%
Node 3: 98.53%
If we switch to using vmalloc (like ia64 and x86-64) things are more
balanced:
Free memory:
Node 0: 97.53%
Node 1: 98.35%
Node 2: 98.33%
Node 3: 98.33%
For many HPC applications we are limited by the free available memory on
the smallest node, so even though the same amount of memory is used the
better balancing helps.
Since all 64bit NUMA capable architectures should have sufficient vmalloc
space, it makes sense to enable it via CONFIG_64BIT.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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