Yes, this one, too!  +1

Mike

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.
> 
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