Re: [PATCH] slob: poor man's NUMA support.

Nick Piggin
2007-06-25T06:18:17Z

Paul Mundt wrote:
> This adds preliminary NUMA support to SLOB, primarily aimed at systems
> with small nodes (tested all the way down to a 128kB SRAM block), whether
> asymmetric or otherwise.

Fine by me as well, FWIW. My points about per-cpu/node queues were not
to say that I'm really opposed to getting this in first. In a way, you
sell yourself short with the patch name: the implementation may be just
a basic one, but simplicity is a key point of SLOB... Adding numa
awareness to the slob APIs is obviously a key step and makes it much
easier to experiment with enhancements to the implementation.

Unless it has been picked up already, I'd call it "initial NUMA support"
;) Thanks! Would be great to hear about your experiences using SLOB as
well -- how much memory you're saving, how it performs, etc.

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