Re: NUMA API for Linux

[Andrew Morton]

Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We can discuss changes when someone shows numbers that additional 
> optimizations are needed. I haven't seen such numbers and I'm not convinced
> sharing is even a good idea from a design standpoint.  For the first version 
> I just aimed to get something working with straight forward code.
> 
> To put it all in perspective: a policy is 12 bytes on a 32bit machine
> (assuming MAX_NUMNODES <= 32) and 16 bytes on a 64bit machine
> (with MAX_NUMNODES <= 64)

sizeof(vm_area_struct) is a very sensitive thing on ia32.  If you expect
that anyone is likely to actually use the numa API on 32-bit, sharing
will be important.

It should be useful for SMT, yes?

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