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Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/40] autonuma: CPU follow memory algorithm
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: dlaor@redhat.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>,
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        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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        Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
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        Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
        Bharata B Rao <bharata.rao@gmail.com>,
        Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
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        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:03:06 +0200
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On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 20:57 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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.

Also, Andrea keeps insisting arch support is trivial, so I don't see the
problem.
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