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[PATCH] mm: add noaliencache boot option to disable numa alien caches
authorPaul Menage <menage@google.com>
Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:16 +0000 (20:32 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>
Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:39:21 +0000 (08:39 -0800)
commit042f0cff9332bbc956d676328c1ac7bc4f3ca9f9
treeea2513a28464a5b2907a9cb71cbfb6be88389205
parentb53da05abf8584b2ee74c6b40d732cbbab928bd1
[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>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
mm/slab.c