On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am not convinced this is the right way forward. > > While this may work well for programs written in languages > with pointers, and for virtual machines, I do not see how > eg. a JVM could provide useful hints to the kernel, because > the Java program running on top has no idea about the > memory addresses of its objects, and the Java language has > no way to hint which thread will be the predominant user > of an object. True. OTOH, while autonuma seems to be better for the JVM, numa sched is a significant improvement over current code: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1204.0/01200.html Why is that? -- 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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