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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 14:33:44 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RESEND RFC PATCH V3] sched: Improve scalability of
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 01:33:35PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> I think you want to go allocate sched_domain_shared for the MC level and
> use that, much like sd_llc_shared.

Also, you'd want to try and get performance numbers for something like
Power8, which has SMT8 and fairly expensive atomic ops.