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authorPaul Menage <menage@google.com>2006-12-06 20:32:16 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-07 08:39:21 -0800
commit3395ee0588795b0b3bd889c260e55959cf2b61f5 (patch)
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[PATCH] mm: add noaliencache boot option to disable numa alien caches
When using numa=fake on non-NUMA hardware there is no benefit to having the alien caches, and they consume much memory. Add a kernel boot option to disable them. Christoph sayeth "This is good to have even on large NUMA. The problem is that the alien caches grow by the square of the size of the system in terms of nodes." Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -1012,6 +1012,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor
is present.
+ noaliencache [MM, NUMA] Disables the allcoation of alien caches in
+ the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, but will
+ impact performance on real NUMA hardware.
+
noalign [KNL,ARM]
noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel to not make use of any