Re: Whining about NUMA. :) [Was whining about 2.5...]

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Oct 05 2001 - 09:51:44 EST


> So would a workable (if naieve) attempt to use Andrea's
> memory-zones-grouped-into-classes approach on NUMA just involve making a
> class/zone list for each node? (Okay, you've got to identify nodes, and
> group together processors, bridges, DMAable devices, etc, but it seems like
> that has to be done anyway, class/zone or not.) How does what people want to
> do for NUMA improve on that?

I fear it becomes an N! problem.

I'd like to hear what Andrea has planned since without docs its hard to
speculate on how the 2.4.10 vm works anyway
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