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SubjectRe: [PATCH 13/40] autonuma: CPU follow memory algorithm
On 06/29/2012 03:03 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 20:57 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 14:46 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
>>>
>>> I am not convinced all architectures that have CONFIG_NUMA
>>> need to be a requirement, since some of them (eg. Alpha)
>>> seem to be lacking a maintainer nowadays.
>>
>> Still, this NUMA balancing stuff is not a small tweak to load-balancing.
>> Its a very significant change is how you schedule. Having such great
>> differences over architectures isn't something I look forward to.

I am not too worried about the performance of architectures
that are essentially orphaned :)

> Also, Andrea keeps insisting arch support is trivial, so I don't see the
> problem.

Getting it implemented in one or two additional architectures
would be good, to get a template out there that can be used by
other architecture maintainers.

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