Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 May 2004 13:32:10 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: How can I optimize a process on a NUMA architecture(x86-64 specifically)? |
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> "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> writes: > >> For any given situation, you can come up with a scheduler mod that improves >> things. The problem is making something generic that works well in most >> cases. > > The point behind numa api/numactl is that if the defaults > don't work well enough you can tune it by hand to be better. > > There are some setups which can be significantly improved with some > hand tuning, although in many cases the default behaviour is good enough > too.
Oh, I'm not denying it can make things better ... just 90% of the people who want to try it would be better off leaving it the hell alone ;-)
M.
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