Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Apr 2009 09:05:30 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Off topic: Numactl "distance" wrong |
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> Well, some user-space application may use these distances > to improve their binding.
I'm not aware of any that does. In general applications usually only use the bare basics of NUMA API (if at all), the fancy stuff tends to be more slideware.
If it's true then the correct place would be to fix the BIOS.
> Maybe nobody does yet because > numa distances have never been available on x86_64 boxes...
That's an incorrect statement. There are x86-64 boxes which report correct NUMA distances.
-Andi
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