Re: [PATCH v3] KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob

2012-09-15 Thread Petr Holasek
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Andrew Morton wrote: Hi Andrew, at first thanks for your review! > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:22:47 +0200 > Petr Holasek wrote: > > > Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_nodes > > I wonder if merge_across_nodes would be a better name. > Agreed. > > w

Re: [PATCH v3] KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob

2012-09-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:22:47 +0200 Petr Holasek wrote: > Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_nodes I wonder if merge_across_nodes would be a better name. > which control merging pages across different numa nodes. > When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are

[PATCH v3] KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob

2012-09-14 Thread Petr Holasek
Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KV