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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: ADA os talk
Date: 29 Aug 2001 09:45:24 -0500
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In article <9miteo$t7r$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:
> Why not set a goal of a kernel that handles scheduling of processes & tasks
> on from one to N processors?

For large values of N, then, that should include NUMA support.
This is _not_ just a matter of page tables, but must include
special NUMA logic for spinlocks to assure fairness.