> In addition, on NUMA systems we make the CRNG state per-NUMA socket, to > address the NUMA locking contention problem which Andi Kleen has been > complaining about. I'm not entirely sure this will work well on the > crazy big SGI systems, but they are rare. Whether they are rarer than
It should work the same on larger systems, the solution scales naturally to lots of sockets. It's not clear it'll help enough on systems with a lot more cores per socket, like a Xeon Phi. But for now it should be good enough. -Andi
