On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 08:05:16 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > That is one possibility. There are people working on fake nodes for > > containers > > at the moment. If that pans out, the infrastructure would be available to > > create one node per DIMM. > > Right that is a hack in use for one project. Other projects can use it too. It has the distinct advantage that it works with today's VM. > We would be adding huge > amounts of VM overhead if we do a node per DIMM. No we wouldn't. > So a desktop system with two dimms is to be treated like a NUMA > system? Could do that. Or make them separate zones. > Or how else do we deal with the multitude of load balancing > situations that the additional nodes will generate? No such problems are known. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
