Topology updates and NUMA-level sched domains

Nishanth Aravamudan nacc at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sat Apr 11 05:50:46 AEST 2015


On 10.04.2015 [11:08:10 +0200], Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 10:31:53AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Please, step back, look at what you're doing and ask yourself, will any
> > sane person want to use this? Can they use this?
> > 
> > If so, start by describing the desired user semantics of this work.
> > Don't start by cobbling kernel bits togerther until it stops crashing.
> 
> Also, please talk to your s390 folks. They've long since realized that
> this doesn't work. They've just added big honking caches (their BOOK
> stuff) and pretend the system is UMA.

Interesting, I will take a look.

-Nish



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