Fawzi Mohamed wrote: > I would take advantage more info about the possible numa node > connectivity (to know where to steal tasks), but I don't have access > to machines that would really take advantage of that, and probably > even then using the HW structure as topology would not bad.
NUMA connectivity is a big problem. Most x86 machines show nothing interesting in cat /sys/devices/system/node/node*/distance. On AMD hypertransport, there are some routing information in lspci, but I think you have to be root to see it, and I am not even sure it's enough to discover the actual HT graph. We have a "measurement-based backend" in the TODO-list. It could be the only way to find out the NUMA connectivity. That said, it's not clear that this will be a big problem. AMD Magny-Cours machines and Nehalem-EX machines with 2-4 sockets have a fully-interconnected NUMA graph. No problem if we don't have NUMA topology information there.. For larger machines, SGI is already doing a good job at reporting NUMA distances in sysfs. What remains is other large machines (several vendors announced 8-socket Nehalem EX machines). We'll see. Brice
