Re: ppc: RECLAIM_DISTANCE 10?

On Wed, 19 Feb 2014, Michal Hocko wrote:

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I strongly suspect that the patch is correct since powerpc node distances 
are different than the architectures you're talking about and get doubled 
for every NUMA domain that the hardware supports.

Even if the units of the distance is different on PPC should every NUMA
machine have zone_reclaim enabled? That doesn't right to me.

In my experience on powerpc it's very correct, there's typically a 
significant latency in remote access and we don't have the benefit of a 
SLIT that actually defines the locality between proximity domains like we 
do on other architectures.  We have had significant issues with thp, for 
example, being allocated remotely instead of pages locally, much more 
drastic than on our x86 machines, particularly AMD machines.