NUMA memory block size

[Mike Kravetz]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:50:13AM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
>
> 2. A lmb_alloc() approach has the benefit of only allocating as much table
> as we actually have physical memory in the system.
>

Yes and no (if I understand correctly).  The lmb array is currently
limited to 128 entries.  In practice, most of the lmbs are physically
contiguous so they are coalesced into a much smaller number.  However,
couldn't there be a worst case scenario where we could only support
128 16MB lmbs?  Does anyone see a need to be concerned about this?
-OR- Is this just too unlikely to occur?  Does the hypervisor try to
take this type of fragmentation into account?

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Mike

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