>>>> numactl-2.0.9-2.el6.0 >>> >>> I'm pretty sure this is x86 specific. What depends on it? Is there a >>> configuration option to disable this dependency? >> irqbalance depends on it. >> I'm not sure it's x86 specific. I found the patch here: >> https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/Kernel/NUMA >> here it says: >> "There aren't any ARM NUMA systems out at the moment, but one can use >> the Linux NUMA subsystem to group cores that share an L2 cache together >> into the same node. For certain workloads this can then result in a >> decrease in the accesses to main memory." >> I guess we can argue both ways :) > > Fair enough, if it works. :)
well, there is a catch. Apparently the patch is different for kernels before 3.8-rc1 and after. what I did now is use the old patch for RSEL6 and the new for RSEL7. but that's all a bit arbitrary. _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users
