On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > 1) Some bios don't have such knob. btw, OK, yes, *I* can switch NUMA off > completely > because I don't have such bios. 2) bios level turning off makes some side > effects, > example, scheduler load balancing don't care numa anymore.
Well then lets add a kernel parameter that switches all NUMA off. Otherwise: If you just run a kernel build without NUMA support then you have a similar effect. Re #2) If you have the system toss processes around the system then the load balancing heuristics does not bring you any benefit. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
