From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-vc0-f173.google.com ([209.85.220.173]:65462 "EHLO mail-vc0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751581AbaHDDwt (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2014 23:52:49 -0400 Received: by mail-vc0-f173.google.com with SMTP id hy10so10213913vcb.32 for ; Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:52:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1710836.KjMYxs0ugf@xev> References: <1710836.KjMYxs0ugf@xev> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 23:52:48 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Threads being NUMA aware From: Nick Krause To: Russell Coker Cc: "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org SYSTEM list:BTRFS FILE" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 22:44:26 Nick Krause wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Russell Coker wrote: >> > Please get yourself a NUMA system and test this out. >> >> Unfortunately I don't have money for an extra machine as of now as I >> am a student > > If you can't get an extra machine then you probably can't contribute to > developing filesystems, and your ability to do any sort of kernel development > will be greatly limited. It's probably best that you choose another area of > software development until you get more hardware (and skill). > >> so if x86 is NUMA I can test otherwise I can't. > > If you had even read the NUMA Wikipedia page then you would already know the > answer to this implied question. > > But really programming computers isn't something that you are good at. It's > not something that you will become good at if you attempt tasks that are way > above your skill level. I think that the best strategy for you is to find a > mailing list for Linux beginners, when your skills get to the level that you > answer more questions than you ask (and people appreciate your answers) then > you can move on to easy programming tasks. Once you master the easy > programming tasks you can move on to more difficult tasks. > > I suggest that you develop a realistic plan. Plan to start kernel programming > in 2024 and have a series of goals on that path over the next 10 years. Make > your 2015 goal be answering lots of questions on a Linux beginners mailing > list, that's a goal you can achieve in a year. > > -- > My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ > My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ > After reading the article seems it does and just because I don't have an extra machine doesn't seem to be an issue so far. Regards Nick