Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 13:09:59 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, hpa@zytor.com,
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Subject: Re: [tip:sched/numa] sched/numa: Introduce sys_numa_{t,m}bind()
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* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:

< [...]
> 
> That said, I'll leave the door open and will consider 
> something like his scanning stuff as an optional add on on-top 
> of this.
> 
> I very much believe in doing the simple thing first, and this 
> is that, this is much like what the userspace daemons try to 
> do and many of the traditional Unixes have also done (albeit 
> many of those didn't go the way of home-node migration).

Probably because those Unices didnt survive long enough to reach 
NUMA machines in earnest. SMP was a big deal already.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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