Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> Neal gave the heuristic argument to me at Oslo. He said, to > paraphrase him, that all memory pages are equal (ie it doesn't > matter which page you get), but all time slices are not. In > particular, it does indeed matter if you get the next, let's say, > one million time slices, or if you get only one and then have to > wait a bit until everybody else got a chance to run, and that one > million times. Also, time is consumed and then useless to anybody > else, while access to memory can be revoked temporarily without too > much problems (there is still the issue of caching etc, but it's > controllable). How about NUMA? AFAIK it matter a lot for NUMA systems which page a task gets. And will we support NUMA? (I'm sorry if this is a bit off-topic). Thanks, Marco
