NUMA memory block size
Mike Kravetz
kravetz at us.ibm.com
Tue Apr 6 03:36:11 EST 2004
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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