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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:56:29 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com>
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Subject: Re: Manfreds patch to distribute boot allocations across nodes
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Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com> wrote:
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> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:07:32AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >  > Should this not search for the emptiest node?
> > > 
> > >  Allocating things round robin avoids a hot node where everything ends up
> > >  being allocated.
> > 
> > Have you any performance measurements for this patch?
> 
> Any suggestions on what benchmark to run?

I guess SDET is the closest thing we have to a "mixed workload".