Re: How can I optimize a process on a NUMA architecture(x86-64 specifically)?

[Martin J. Bligh]

> "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> For any given situation, you can come up with a scheduler mod that improves
>> things. The problem is making something generic that works well in most
>> cases. 
> 
> The point behind numa api/numactl is that if the defaults
> don't work well enough you can tune it by hand to be better.
> 
> There are some setups which can be significantly improved with some
> hand tuning, although in many cases the default behaviour is good enough
> too.

Oh, I'm not denying it can make things better ... just 90% of the people
who want to try it would be better off leaving it the hell alone ;-)

M.

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