On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 01:15:15PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
>On Fri 28-12-18 17:42:08, Wu Fengguang wrote:
>[...]
>> Those look unnecessary complexities for this post. This v2 patchset
>> mainly fulfills our first milestone goal: a minimal viable solution
>> that's relatively clean to backport. Even when preparing for new
>> upstreamable versions, it may be good to keep it simple for the
>> initial upstream inclusion.
>
>On the other hand this is creating a new NUMA semantic and I would like
>to have something long term thatn let's throw something in now and care
>about long term later. So I would really prefer to talk about long term
>plans first and only care about implementation details later.

That makes good sense. FYI here are the several in-house patches that
try to leverage (but not yet integrate with) NUMA balancing. The last
one is brutal force hacking. They obviously break original NUMA
balancing logic.

Thanks,
Fengguang