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To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
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       Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] reduce inter-node balancing frequency
References: <200407151829.20069.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
From: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
Date: 18 Jul 2004 09:12:13 -0400
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>>>>> "Jesse" == Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> writes:

Jesse> Nick, we've had this patch floating around for awhile now and
Jesse> I'm wondering what you think.  It's needed to boot systems with
Jesse> lots (e.g. 256) nodes, but could probably be done another way.
Jesse> Do you think we should create a scheduler domain for every 64
Jesse> nodes or something?  Any other NUMA folks have thoughts about
Jesse> these values?

vSMP could use something like this as well. I think Martin Hicks
already did an arch-aware patch for setting these things.

Jes