Re: [tip:sched/numa] sched/numa: Introduce sys_numa_{t,m}bind()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat May 19 2012 - 07:10:07 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

< [...]
>
> That said, I'll leave the door open and will consider
> something like his scanning stuff as an optional add on on-top
> of this.
>
> I very much believe in doing the simple thing first, and this
> is that, this is much like what the userspace daemons try to
> do and many of the traditional Unixes have also done (albeit
> many of those didn't go the way of home-node migration).

Probably because those Unices didnt survive long enough to reach
NUMA machines in earnest. SMP was a big deal already.

Thanks,

Ingo
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