Re: [patch 1/5] sched: remove degenerate domains

[Nick Piggin]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Siddha, Suresh B <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > Similarly I am working on adding a new core domain for dual-core 
> > systems! All these domains are unnecessary and cause performance 
> > isssues on non Multi-threading/Multi-core capable cpus! Agreed that 
> > performance impact will be minor but still...
>
>
> ok, lets keep it then. It may in fact simplify the domain setup code: we 
> could generate the 'most generic' layout for a given arch all the time, 
> and then optimize it automatically. I.e. in theory we could have just a 
> single domain-setup routine, which would e.g. generate the NUMA domains 
> on SMP too, which would then be optimized away.

Yep, exactly. Even so, Andrew: please ignore this patch series
and I'll redo it for you when we all agree on everything.

Thanks.

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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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