On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Paul Turner wrote: > I don't see it proposed as a topic yet (unless I missed it) but I spoke with > Peter briefly and I think this would be a good opportunity in particular to > discuss NUMA-aware load-balancing. Currently, we only try to solve the 1-d > problem of optimizing for weight; but there's recently been interest from > several parties in improving this. Issues involves proactively accounting for > the distribution of current allocations, determining when to initiate reactive > migration (or when not to move tasks!), and the associated grouping semantics. So this would mean having statistics that show how many pages are allocated on each node and take that into consideration for load balancing? Which is something that we felt to be desirable for a long time. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>