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Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/40] autonuma: CPU follow memory algorithm
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: dlaor@redhat.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:57:04 +0200
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On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 14:46 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> 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. 

Still, this NUMA balancing stuff is not a small tweak to load-balancing.
Its a very significant change is how you schedule. Having such great
differences over architectures isn't something I look forward to.
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