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Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 14:49:43 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Subject: Re: NUMA is bust with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
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> Either you're going to have to change that to get_cpu_only_on_numa() and
> add the matching put_cpu_only_on_numa()'s, or disable preempt in
> the config system.

I'd favour the latter. It doesn't seem that useful on big machines like this, and
adds significant complication ... anyone really want it on a NUMA box? If not,
I'll make a patch to disable it for NUMA machines ...

M.

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