Re: Whining about NUMA. :) [Was whining about 2.5...]

[Alan Cox]

> So would a workable (if naieve) attempt to use Andrea's 
> memory-zones-grouped-into-classes approach on NUMA just involve making a 
> class/zone list for each node?  (Okay, you've got to identify nodes, and 
> group together processors, bridges, DMAable devices, etc, but it seems like 
> that has to be done anyway, class/zone or not.)  How does what people want to 
> do for NUMA improve on that?

I fear it becomes an N! problem.

I'd like to hear what Andrea has planned since without docs its hard to 
speculate on how the 2.4.10 vm works anyway