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Con Kolivas returns with a new scheduler

Con Kolivas returns with a new scheduler

Posted Sep 5, 2009 3:28 UTC (Sat) by realnc (guest, #60393)
In reply to: Con Kolivas returns with a new scheduler by kerick
Parent article: Con Kolivas returns with a new scheduler

"BIG NUMA machines will probably suck a lot with this because it pays no deference to locality of the NUMA nodes when deciding what cpu to use. It just keeps them all busy. The so-called "light NUMA" that constitutes commodity hardware these days seems to really like BFS."

The point is that big NUMA machines aren't used for Desktops ;)


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