Re: Manfreds patch to distribute boot allocations across nodes
From: Anton Blanchard
Date: Sat Feb 07 2004 - 04:09:03 EST
> Is this a thing which all NUMA machines want to be doing?
So far we have ppc64 and x86-64. I suspect the others will be OK with
it.
> Should this not search for the emptiest node?
Allocating things round robin avoids a hot node where everything ends up
being allocated.
> Is non-__init code allowed to call __init code? I thought that caused
> linkage errors on some setups. Pretty sure about that. I think, maybe.
Maybe. Its news to me.
Anton
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/