Re: [PATCH 13/40] autonuma: CPU follow memory algorithm

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* Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> [2012-06-29 15:19:17]:

> On 06/29/2012 03:03 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 20:57 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >>On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 14:46 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >>>
> >>>I am not convinced all architectures that have CONFIG_NUMA
> >>>need to be a requirement, since some of them (eg. Alpha)
> >>>seem to be lacking a maintainer nowadays.
> >>
> >>Still, this NUMA balancing stuff is not a small tweak to load-balancing.
> >>Its a very significant change is how you schedule. Having such great
> >>differences over architectures isn't something I look forward to.
> 
> I am not too worried about the performance of architectures
> that are essentially orphaned :)
> 
> >Also, Andrea keeps insisting arch support is trivial, so I don't see the
> >problem.
> 
> Getting it implemented in one or two additional architectures
> would be good, to get a template out there that can be used by
> other architecture maintainers.

I am currently porting the framework over to powerpc.  I will share
the initial patches in couple of days.

--Vaidy

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