Re: SLAB cache reaper on isolated cpus

2007-02-20 Thread Max Krasnyansky
Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Max Krasnyansky wrote: > >> Suppose I need to isolate a CPU. We already support at the scheduler and >> irq levels (irq affinity). But I want to go a bit further and avoid >> doing kernel work on isolated cpus as much as possible. For example I

Re: SLAB cache reaper on isolated cpus

2007-02-20 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Max Krasnyansky wrote: > Suppose I need to isolate a CPU. We already support at the scheduler and > irq levels (irq affinity). But I want to go a bit further and avoid > doing kernel work on isolated cpus as much as possible. For example I > would not want to schedule work

SLAB cache reaper on isolated cpus

2007-02-20 Thread Max Krasnyansky
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Max Krasnyansky wrote: Ok. Sounds like disabling cache_reaper is a better option for now. Like you said it's unlikely that slabs will grow much if that cpu is not heavily used by the kernel. Running for prolonged times without cache_reaper is no

SLAB cache reaper on isolated cpus

2007-02-20 Thread Max Krasnyansky
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Max Krasnyansky wrote: Ok. Sounds like disabling cache_reaper is a better option for now. Like you said it's unlikely that slabs will grow much if that cpu is not heavily used by the kernel. Running for prolonged times without cache_reaper is no

Re: SLAB cache reaper on isolated cpus

2007-02-20 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Max Krasnyansky wrote: Suppose I need to isolate a CPU. We already support at the scheduler and irq levels (irq affinity). But I want to go a bit further and avoid doing kernel work on isolated cpus as much as possible. For example I would not want to schedule work

Re: SLAB cache reaper on isolated cpus

2007-02-20 Thread Max Krasnyansky
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Max Krasnyansky wrote: Suppose I need to isolate a CPU. We already support at the scheduler and irq levels (irq affinity). But I want to go a bit further and avoid doing kernel work on isolated cpus as much as possible. For example I would