Re: [PATCH 1/5] cpuset memory spread basic implementation

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Tuesday 07 February 2006 18:10, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 07 February 2006 13:30, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > > you are a bit biased towards low-latency NUMA setups i guess (read: 
> > > Opterons) :-) 
> > 
> > Well they are the vast majority of NUMA systems Linux runs on.
> 
> The opterons are some strange mix of SMP and NUMA system. The NUMA "nodes" 
> are on the same motherboard 

Actually it's not true - 8 socket systems are built out of two
boards. And there are much bigger systems upcomming.

> and therefore there are only small latencies  
> involved. NUMA only gives small benefits.

That's also not true. Everytime I get memory placement for 
process memory wrong users complain _very_ loudly and there 
are clear benefits in benchmarks too.
 
-Andi
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