Re: [PATCH] per-cpu change

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Fri, 2 May 2003 21:53:22 -0700


In message <16050.41490.798865.517036@napali.hpl.hp.com> you write:
>> - On NUMA, you want to allocate the per-CPU areas in node-local memory.

On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 02:40:57PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Thanks: I'd forgotten about this. Even "big smp" machines often have
> different memory latencies.

I have already a patch to do this for ia32 NUMA systems (which present
issues not present on sane architectures).

I also didn't notice the lack of an override; #undef'ing the macro
__GENERIC_PER_CPU appeared to suffice for me.

-- wli
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