Re: [PATCH 00/07][RFC] i386: NUMA emulation

David Lang
2005-10-03T14:49:41Z

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

>>> I agree that it is very unlikely to find a single-processor NUMA
>>> system in the real world. So yes, "[PATCH 02/07] i386: numa on
>>> non-smp" adds _some_ extra complexity. But because SMP is set when
>>> supporting more than one cpu, and NUMA is set when supporting more
>>> than one memory node, I see no reason why they should be dependent on
>>> each other. Except that they depend on each other today and breaking
>>> them loose will increase complexity a bit.
>>
>> hmm, observation from the peanut gallery, would it make sene to look at
>> useing the NUMA code on single proc machines that use PAE to access
>> more then 4G or ram on a 32 bit system?
>
> 2 problems:
>
> 1) there aren't any ;-)
> 2) The memory is not physically differently separated from the CPUs, so
> it's not NUMA.

even though it's not physically differently seperated from the CPU(s)
doesn't it's differing performance amount to the same thing?

David Lang

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