Re: [Lse-tech] Node affine NUMA scheduler extension

[Erich Focht <efocht@hpce.nec.com>]

On Tuesday 27 May 2003 13:40, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > I left the loadbalancer to decide on where the homenode should be. And
> > the decision wasn't good enough (it lead to unbalanced nodes, that's
> > certainly not the case on Opteron :-). So it made sense to have a
> > specialized homenode chooser which considered the node loads instead
> > of changing the normal load balancer.
>
> I have that, but only on exec (similar to what 2.5 mainline does with the
> NUMA scheduler)

Oh, that's fine, then. It's better than just on exec().

> > BTW: do you assign the homenode at first load balancing or at first
> > cross-node balancing?
>
> It's the same on Opteron: each CPU is an own node. The lazy homenode for
> fork/clone is chosen on the first load balance of the new thread.

Ah, you're right :-)

Erich