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Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/40] autonuma: CPU follow memory algorithm
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On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 20:57 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 14:46 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >=20
> > I am not convinced all architectures that have CONFIG_NUMA
> > need to be a requirement, since some of them (eg. Alpha)
> > seem to be lacking a maintainer nowadays.=20
>=20
> Still, this NUMA balancing stuff is not a small tweak to load-balancing.
> Its a very significant change is how you schedule. Having such great
> differences over architectures isn't something I look forward to.

Also, Andrea keeps insisting arch support is trivial, so I don't see the
problem.

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