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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/35] AutoNUMA alpha14
    On 05/25/2012 01:02 PM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

    > I believe (realistically speaking) nobody is going to change
    > applications to specify which thread is using which memory (for
    > threaded apps) with the only exception of QEMU and a few others.

    This is the point of contention. I believe that for some
    programs these kinds of modifications might happen, but
    that for some other programs - managed runtimes like JVMs -
    it is fundamentally impossible to do proper NUMA hinting,
    because the programming languages that run on top of the
    runtimes have no concept of pointers or memory ranges, making
    it impossible to do those kinds of hints without fundamentally
    changing the programming languages in question.

    It would be good to get everybody's ideas out there on this
    topic, because this is the fundamental factor in deciding
    between Peter's approach to NUMA and Andrea's approach.

    Ingo? Andrew? Linus? Paul?

    > For not threaded apps that fits in a NUMA node, there's no way a blind
    > home node can perform nearly as good as AutoNUMA:

    The small tasks are easy. I suspect that either implementation
    can be tuned to produce good results there.

    It is the large programs (that do not fit in a NUMA node, either
    due to too much memory, or due to too many threads) that will
    force our hand in deciding whether to go with Peter's approach
    or your approach.

    I believe we do need to carefully think about this issue, decide
    on a NUMA approach based on the fundamental technical properties of
    each approach.

    After we figure out what we want to do, we can nit-pick on the
    codebase in question, and make sure it gets completely fixed.
    I am sure neither codebase is perfect right now, but both are
    entirely fixable.

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