Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:26:49 +0900 (JST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/07][RFC] i386: NUMA emulation | From | Hirokazu Takahashi <> |
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Hi,
> > In theory at least, I applaud Magnus's work here. The assymetry of the > > SMP/NUMA define structure has always annoyed me slightly, and only been > > explainable in my view as a consequence of the historical order of > > development. I had a PC with a second memory board in an ISA slot, > > which would qualify as a one CPU, two Memory Node system. > > > > Or what byte us in the future (that PC was a long time ago), the kinks > > in the current setup might be a hitch in our side as we extend to > > increasingly interesting architectures. > > Nice to hear that you like the idea. > > Maybe I should have broken down my patches into three smaller sets: > > 1) i386: NUMA without SMP > 2) CPUSETS: NUMA || SMP > 3) i386: NUMA emulation > > If people like 1) then it's probably a good idea to convert other > architectures too. Both 2) and 3) above are separate but related > issues. And now seems like a good time to solve 2). > > So, Paul, please let me know if you prefer SMP || NUMA or no > depencencies in the Kconfig. When I know that I will create a new > patch that hopefully can get into -mm later on.
The latter seems a good idea to me if you're going to enhance CPUSETS acceptable for CPUMETER or something like that.
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