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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: "Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.4-mm1
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 07:04:50PM -0800, Nakajima, Jun wrote:
> As we can have more complex architectures in the future, the scheduler
> is flexible enough to represent various scheduling domains effectively,
> and yet keeps the common scheduler code simple.

I think for SMT alone it's too complex and for NUMA it doesn't do
the right thing for "modern NUMAs" (where NUMA factor is very low
and you have a small number of CPUs for each node). 

-Andi