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Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/40] autonuma: CPU follow memory algorithm
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On 06/29/2012 02:41 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 12:51 -0400, Dor Laor wrote:
>> t's hard to say whether Peter's like to add ia64 support or
>> just like to get rid of the forceful migration as a whole.
>
> I've stated several times that all archs that have CONFIG_NUMA must be
> supported before we can consider any of this. I've no intention of doing
> so myself. Andrea wants this, Andrea gets to do it.

I am not convinced all architectures that have CONFIG_NUMA
need to be a requirement, since some of them (eg. Alpha)
seem to be lacking a maintainer nowadays.

It would be good if Andrea could touch base with the maintainers
of the actively maintained architectures with NUMA, and get them
to sign off on the way autonuma does things, and work with them
to get autonuma ported to those architectures.

> I've also stated several times that forceful migration in the context of
> numa balancing must go.

I am not convinced about this part either way.

I do not see how a migration numa thread (which could potentially
use idle cpu time) will be any worse than migrate on fault, which
will always take away time from the userspace process.

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