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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:17:55 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] Improve numa scheduling by consolidating tasks
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 01:18:15PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> Here is an approach that looks to consolidate workloads across nodes.
> This results in much improved performance. Again I would assume this work
> is complementary to Mel's work with numa faulting.

I highly dislike the use of task weights here. It seems completely
unrelated to the problem at hand.