Re: [PATCH 01/05] NUMA: Generic code

[Magnus Damm]

On 16 Nov 2005 08:48:39 +0100, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > For testing, your NUMA emulation code is perfect IMO. But for memory
> > resource control your NUMA emulation code may be too simple.
> >
> > With my patch, CONFIG_NUMA_EMU provides a way to partition a machine
> > into several smaller nodes, regardless if the machine is using NUMA or
> > not.
> >
> > This NUMA emulation code together with CPUSETS could be seen as a
> > simple alternative to the memory resource control provided by CKRM.
>
> I believe Werner tried to use it at some point for that and it just
> didn't work very well. So it doesn't seem to be very useful for
> that usecase.

Sorry, but which one did not work very well? CKRM memory controller or
NUMA emulation + CPUSETS?

Thanks,

/ magnus
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