Re: NPTL/SMP/NUMA

From: Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Date: Wed Jun 04 2003 - 01:11:44 EST


>> thinking on SMP machines, and which have been made to other purposes?
>> Is there any feature on the library/kernel that make it possible to
>> exploit the benefits of NUMA systems?
>
> NUMA systems don't have any benefits (well other than engineering
> considerations like practicality of construction).

Personally, I'd say that's pretty important ;-) But I get your point ...

On the other hand, you could look at it as "better local latency" rather
than "worse remote latency". Particularly if you stand on a big Sun
server when you look, where everything sucks equally for memory access
latencies ;-)

> From a software perspective NUMA is simply a question of making the
> loss as little as possible.

 
> There are patches to do more NUMA aware scheduling which help a bit
> as well as to do things like replicate the kernel code to each node.

The NUMA scheduling code isn't very bright about threads right now,
but we will fix that soon enough ;-)

M.

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