+1 also... -Eric
Jonathan Chew wrote: > I would like to get sponsorship from the OpenSolaris performance > community to host a NUMA project. > > The "Memory Placement Optimization" feature in Solaris has been around > since Solaris 9 and has had web pages in the OpenSolaris performance > community since it started before OpenSolaris projects existed formally. > > I would like to formalize its existence as project in the performance > community since there is more work to be done for NUMA. Specifically, > the project will try to do the following in OpenSolaris: > > - Make MPO aware of I/O device locality > > - Add observability of *kernel* thread and memory placement > > - Optimize kernel thread and memory placement to improve performance in > general and for NUMA I/O > > - Add dynamic lgroup load balancing to improve performance and > potentially minimize power consumption > > - Enhance MPO to work well with virtualization and vice versa > > - Add support for new NUMA machines > > - Improve the existing framework as needed > > - Address any OpenSolaris NUMA issues as they arise > > > Also, formalizing NUMA as an OpenSolaris project will enable the project > to have space on opensolaris.org for sharing code, ideas, etc. which I'm > hoping will facilitate collaboration in this area as well as a better > understanding and appreciation of NUMA and OpenSolaris. > > _______________________________________________ > perf-discuss mailing list > perf-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
