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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:31:06 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.52-mjb1 (scalability / NUMA patchset)
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>> The patchset contains mainly scalability and NUMA stuff, and
>> anything else that stops things from irritating me. It's meant
>> to be pretty stable, not so much a testing ground for new stuff.
>> I'd be very interested in feedback from other people running
>> large SMP or NUMA boxes.
>> http://www.aracnet.com/~fletch/linux/2.5.52/patch-2.5.52-mjb1.bz2
> 
> pfn_to_nid() got lots of icache misses. Try using a macro.

How much difference does this make?

M.