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From: Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] xen: Add NUMA support to Xen
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 09:39:10 -0500
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* Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk> [2006-05-02 09:16]:
> 
> On 1 May 2006, at 22:56, Ryan Harper wrote:
> 
> >NUMA support in Xen is a compile-time option via the build system.
> >Passing numa=y will enable all of the NUMA functionality.  We have
> >tested the code with numa=y and numa=n.
> 
> I don't want to add a compile option for this -- I want NUMA enabled 
> all the time and to add insignificant overhead on non-NUMA (or 
> small-NUMA like AMD64) systems. In fact, there's no reason for it to 
> add significant overhead in any situation really.

OK, agreed.

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Ryan Harper
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