Re: [PATCH] Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations thatmay be migrated

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Mel Gorman wrote:

> That is one possibility. There are people working on fake nodes for containers
> at the moment. If that pans out, the infrastructure would be available to
> create one node per DIMM.

Right that is a hack in use for one project. We would be adding huge 
amounts of VM overhead if we do a node per DIMM.

So a desktop system with two dimms is to be treated like a NUMA 
system? Or how else do we deal with the multitude of load balancing 
situations that the additional nodes will generate?



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