Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264489AbTIDBL4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:11:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264490AbTIDBL4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:11:56 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:60043 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264489AbTIDBLx (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:11:53 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:12:53 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Larry McVoy , "Martin J. Bligh" , Alan Cox , "Brown, Len" , Giuliano Pochini , Larry McVoy , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Scaling noise Message-ID: <20030904011253.GA4306@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Larry McVoy , "Martin J. Bligh" , Alan Cox , "Brown, Len" , Giuliano Pochini , Larry McVoy , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20030903180037.GP4306@holomorphy.com> <20030903180547.GD5769@work.bitmover.com> <20030903181550.GR4306@holomorphy.com> <1062613931.19982.26.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030903194658.GC1715@holomorphy.com> <105370000.1062622139@flay> <20030903212119.GX4306@holomorphy.com> <115070000.1062624541@flay> <20030903215135.GY4306@holomorphy.com> <20030904005822.GC5227@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030904005822.GC5227@work.bitmover.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 768 Lines: 18 On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:51:35PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> This is only truly feasible when the nodes are homogeneous. They will >> not be as there will be physical locality (esp. bits like device >> proximity) concerns. On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:58:22PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > Huh? The nodes are homogeneous. Devices are either local or proxied. Virtualized devices are backed by real devices at some level, so the distance from the node's physical location to the device's then matters. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/