Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030206AbVKPHs5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:48:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030208AbVKPHs5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:48:57 -0500 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:51174 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030206AbVKPHs4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:48:56 -0500 To: Magnus Damm Cc: Magnus Damm , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pj@sgi.com, werner@almesberger.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/05] NUMA: Generic code References: <20051110090920.8083.54147.sendpatchset@cherry.local> <200511110516.37980.ak@suse.de> <200511151515.05201.ak@suse.de> From: Andi Kleen Date: 16 Nov 2005 08:48:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 874 Lines: 17 Magnus Damm 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. -Andi - 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/