From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/05] NUMA: Generic code References: <20051110090920.8083.54147.sendpatchset@cherry.local> <200511110516.37980.ak@suse.de> <200511151515.05201.ak@suse.de> From: Andi Kleen Date: 16 Nov 2005 08:48:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Magnus Damm Cc: Magnus Damm , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pj@sgi.com, werner@almesberger.net List-ID: Magnus Damm writes: > > For testing, your NUMA emulation code is perfect IMO. But for memory > resource control your NUMA emulation code may be too simple. > > With my patch, CONFIG_NUMA_EMU provides a way to partition a machine > into several smaller nodes, regardless if the machine is using NUMA or > not. > > This NUMA emulation code together with CPUSETS could be seen as a > simple alternative to the memory resource control provided by CKRM. I believe Werner tried to use it at some point for that and it just didn't work very well. So it doesn't seem to be very useful for that usecase. -Andi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org