Hi Mel, Ingo, Here are the results of running autonumabenchmark on a 64 core, 8 node machine. Has six 32GB nodes and two 64 GB nodes. KernelVersion: 3.7.0-rc8 Testcase: Min Max Avg numa01: 1475.37 1615.39 1555.24 numa01_HARD_BIND: 900.42 1244.00 993.30 numa01_INVERSE_BIND: 2835.44 5067.22 3634.86 numa01_THREAD_ALLOC: 918.51 1384.21 1121.17 numa01_THREAD_ALLOC_HARD_BIND: 599.58 1178.26 792.73 numa01_THREAD_ALLOC_INVERSE_BIND: 1841.33 2237.34 1988.95 numa02: 126.95 188.31 147.04 numa02_HARD_BIND: 26.05 29.17 26.94 numa02_INVERSE_BIND: 341.10 369.37 349.10 numa02_SMT: 144.32 922.65 386.43 numa02_SMT_HARD_BIND: 26.61 170.71 101.98 numa02_SMT_INVERSE_BIND: 288.12 456.45 325.26 KernelVersion: 3.7.0-rc8-tip_master+(December 7th Snapshot) Testcase: Min Max Avg %Change numa01: 2927.89 3217.56 3103.21 -49.88% numa01_HARD_BIND: 2653.09 5964.23 3431.35 -71.05% numa01_INVERSE_BIND: 3567.03 3933.18 3811.91 -4.64% numa01_THREAD_ALLOC: 1801.80 2339.16 1980.96 -43.40% numa01_THREAD_ALLOC_HARD_BIND: 1705.84 2110.06 1913.64 -58.57% numa01_THREAD_ALLOC_INVERSE_BIND: 2266.12 2540.61 2376.67 -16.31% numa02: 179.26 358.03 264.19 -44.34% numa02_HARD_BIND: 26.07 29.38 27.70 -2.74% numa02_INVERSE_BIND: 337.99 347.95 343.51 1.63% numa02_SMT: 93.65 402.58 213.15 81.29% numa02_SMT_HARD_BIND: 91.19 140.47 116.26 -12.28% numa02_SMT_INVERSE_BIND: 289.03 299.57 297.01 9.51% KernelVersion: 3.7.0-rc6-mel_auto_balance(mm-balancenuma-v10r3) Testcase: Min Max Avg %Change numa01: 1536.93 1819.85 1694.54 -8.22% numa01_HARD_BIND: 909.67 1145.32 1055.57 -5.90% numa01_INVERSE_BIND: 2882.07 3287.24 2976.89 22.10% numa01_THREAD_ALLOC: 995.79 4845.27 1905.85 -41.17% numa01_THREAD_ALLOC_HARD_BIND: 582.36 818.11 655.18 20.99% numa01_THREAD_ALLOC_INVERSE_BIND: 1790.91 1927.90 1868.49 6.45% numa02: 131.53 287.93 209.15 -29.70% numa02_HARD_BIND: 25.68 31.90 27.66 -2.60% numa02_INVERSE_BIND: 341.09 401.37 353.84 -1.34% numa02_SMT: 156.61 2036.63 731.97 -47.21% numa02_SMT_HARD_BIND: 25.10 196.60 79.72 27.92% numa02_SMT_INVERSE_BIND: 294.22 1801.59 824.41 -60.55% KernelVersion: 3.7.0-rc6-autonuma+(mm-autonuma-v28fastr4-mels-rebase) Testcase: Min Max Avg %Change numa01: 1596.13 1715.34 1649.44 -5.71% numa01_HARD_BIND: 920.75 1127.86 1012.50 -1.90% numa01_INVERSE_BIND: 2858.79 3146.74 2977.16 22.09% numa01_THREAD_ALLOC: 250.55 374.27 290.12 286.45% numa01_THREAD_ALLOC_HARD_BIND: 572.29 712.74 630.62 25.71% numa01_THREAD_ALLOC_INVERSE_BIND: 1835.94 2401.04 2011.20 -1.11% numa02: 33.93 104.80 50.99 188.37% numa02_HARD_BIND: 25.94 27.51 26.42 1.97% numa02_INVERSE_BIND: 334.57 349.51 341.23 2.31% numa02_SMT: 43.72 114.82 62.41 519.18% numa02_SMT_HARD_BIND: 34.98 45.61 42.07 142.41% numa02_SMT_INVERSE_BIND: 284.57 310.62 298.51 8.96% Avg refers to mean of 5 iterations of autonuma-benchmark. %Change refers to percentage change from 3.7-rc8 Please do let me know if you have questions/suggestions. -- Thanks and Regards Srikar -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>