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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] How good is Linux at NUMA ?

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] How good is Linux at NUMA ?
  • From: Martin Hicks <mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:38:47 -0500
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 07:25:14PM -0500, Peter Sjoberg wrote:
> http://www.jroller.com/page/jaimec?entry=sparc_linux
> 
> "Linux as almost nothing to make it perform better on NUMA architectures
> and, despite the efforts companies like RedHat, it's still laging
> Solaris (and probably Windows) in this."
> 
> "Just to clear some confusions, AMD is NUMA, Intel and the T1 aren't,
> Solaris is NUMA aware, Linux isn't and Microsoft is trying to introduce
> NUMA awareness into Windows."

Linux is NUMA aware.  If you don't believe me then go RTFS.

mh

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