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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: riel@redhat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, mgorman@suse.de,
	chegu_vinod@hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] numa,x86: store maximum numa node distance
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 11:45:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140509094543.GP30445@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1399569811-14362-2-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com>

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On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 01:23:28PM -0400, riel@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> 
> Store the maximum node distance, so the numa placement code can do
> better placement on systems with complex numa topology.
> 
> The function max_node_distance will return LOCAL_DISTANCE if the
> system has simple NUMA topology, with only a single level of
> remote distance.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Tested-by: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h |  3 +++
>  arch/x86/mm/numa.c              | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/topology.h        |  3 +++
>  3 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
> 

Why are you doing this in arch code? I would've expected some extra code
to sched_init_numa() which is generic code that analyses the distance
table and reconstructs the actual topology from it.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-09  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-08 17:23 [PATCH 0/4] sched,numa: task placement for complex NUMA topologies riel
2014-05-08 17:23 ` [PATCH 1/4] numa,x86: store maximum numa node distance riel
2014-05-09  9:45   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-05-09 15:08     ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-08 17:23 ` [PATCH 2/4] sched,numa: weigh nearby nodes for task placement on complex NUMA topologies riel
2014-05-09  9:53   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 15:14     ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-09  9:54   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 10:03   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 15:16     ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-09 10:11   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 15:11     ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-09 10:13   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 15:03     ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-08 17:23 ` [PATCH 3/4] sched,numa: store numa_group's preferred nid riel
2014-05-08 17:23 ` [PATCH 4/4] sched,numa: pull workloads towards their preferred nodes riel

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