Re: Hurd Advocacy?

[Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>]

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

[...]

> Neal gave the heuristic argument to me at Oslo.  He said, to
> paraphrase him, that all memory pages are equal (ie it doesn't
> matter which page you get), but all time slices are not.  In
> particular, it does indeed matter if you get the next, let's say,
> one million time slices, or if you get only one and then have to
> wait a bit until everybody else got a chance to run, and that one
> million times.  Also, time is consumed and then useless to anybody
> else, while access to memory can be revoked temporarily without too
> much problems (there is still the issue of caching etc, but it's
> controllable).

How about NUMA? AFAIK it matter a lot for NUMA systems which page a
task gets. And will we support NUMA? (I'm sorry if this is a bit off-topic).

Thanks,
Marco