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Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/15] sched: Detect child domain of NUMA (aka NODE)
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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
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On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 15:43 +0200, Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> On multi-node processors a NUMA node might not span a socket.
> Instead a socket might span several NUMA nodes.
> 
> This patch introduces a check whether NODE domain is parent
> of MC domain and sets s_data.numa_child_level accordingly.
> (See previous patch for further details.)

right, except that the previous patch was rather cryptic :/

So you're proposing to have the NODE level depend on multi-node and then
flip NODE and CPU around?