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I haven't run anything else yet. > > I haven't taken a look at the patches yet. Post your talk today will try to > go through and see if i can spot something. Thanks a ton for the testing. Now that I'm back, I'll take a look at few bits again, especially stuff for optimizing traversals. Can you please share what does your system topology look like and what did: sudo dmesg | grep sbm say when you booted into your kernel? >> +void __init sbm_set_topology(int num_instances, int max_threads_per_instance) >> +{ >> +    sbm_max_threads_per_instance = max_threads_per_instance; >> +    sbm_num_instance = num_instances; >> + >> +    pr_info("sbm topology set to %d instance(s) with a maximum of %d thread(s) per instance\n", >> +        sbm_num_instance, >> +        sbm_max_threads_per_instance); >> +} > > nit: Stray empty line at the end. Ack! Thank you again for taking a look. > >> + -- Thanks and Regards, Prateek