Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 08 Oct 2001 10:57:47 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: Whining about NUMA. :) [Was whining about 2.5...] |
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>> So would a workable (if naieve) attempt to use Andrea's >> memory-zones-grouped-into-classes approach on NUMA just involve making a >> class/zone list for each node? (Okay, you've got to identify nodes, and >> group together processors, bridges, DMAable devices, etc, but it seems like >> that has to be done anyway, class/zone or not.) How does what people want to >> do for NUMA improve on that? > > I fear it becomes an N! problem. > > I'd like to hear what Andrea has planned since without docs its hard to > speculate on how the 2.4.10 vm works anyway
Can you describe why it's N! ? Are you talking about the worst possible case, or a two level local / non-local problem?
Thanks,
Martin.
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