LSE Tech Conference Call 07-26-02

1. Erich Focht - NUMA aware scheduler

	The O(1) scheduler is not enough for large NUMA systems
because it will lead to unequally balanced nodes. One goal of
this scheduler is to create affinity between a node and
a process. Each task is assigned a home node variable which
helps determine where the task will be scheduled and where
the memory will be allocated. This scheduler will need discontig 
memory support also.
	Michael Hohnbaum asked if there is any support for
hyperthreaded processes. Erich said in principal it would 
work but right now it is not good enough.
	Michael is also porting this scheduler to 2.5 ia32 
and will show it to Erich when he gets it working.

2. Randy Hron - irq balancing results

	tested aa most recent kernel and found there was not
much difference with lmbench between the last kernel.

	Bill offered to help get Randy past his panics and keep 
him working so he can move onto 2.5

3. Adam Litke - Lockmeter port to 2.5.25

	He and Dave Hanson did a little clean up in spinlock.h
in addition to the port to 2.5.25 and 26. so far it works fine. 
they are hoping to get it accepted into the kernel. 

kernprof needs gcc version 3.0.4 to work.

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