On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 10:25 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > I like your code for handling smaller processes in NUMA > > systems, but we do need to have a serious discussion on > > how to handle processes that do not fit in one node. > > The home node seems to be associated with a thread and not a process. So > we would be able to have multiple home nodes per process. Its set the same for every thread in a process, unless you use the new system calls to carve it up in pieces. > The whole NUMA policy thing is already quite complex and this will > increase that complexity somewhat. Wish we could simplify things somehow. Most of that is due to existing interfaces, I'm afraid we cannot simplify without reducing those :/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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