At 11:06 23/04/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>A few moons ago, Stephen Twiddie gave a talk about the then forthcoming
>2.4 series kernels. I seem to remember him briefly talking about parallel
>computers and something that takes into account that, for clusters of SMP
>machines, some processors are `nearer' than others.
>
>Does anyone have more information about this, or was it just a feverish
>dream ..
Perhaps you mean NUMA, where the task scheduler knows that some memory is 'closer' to
one CPU than another and will try to keep a thread running on the CPU closest to it's
data (I think). See http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.3/doc/vm/numa.html for more info.
Hope this helps,
Steven Murdoch.
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