S390 To Get "Fake NUMA" / NUMA Emulation In Linux 4.3

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S390 To Get "Fake NUMA" / NUMA Emulation In Linux 4.3

31 August 2015, 12:30 PM

Phoronix: S390 To Get "Fake NUMA" / NUMA Emulation In Linux 4.3

The IBM s390 architecture will gain fake NUMA support with the upcoming Linux 4.3 for providing faster performance under some workloads...

S390 To Get "Fake NUMA" / NUMA Emulation In Linux 4.3 - Phoronix

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13 September 2015, 07:47 PM

This will be interesting to see... We have quite a few Enterprise Z13 boxes dedicated to hosting Linux guests. Everything from app servers to Oracle 11. I'm preparing a secure build of SLES12 now for guests, that will be able to use docker. Unfortunately, SLES12 uses a 3.12 kernel base, but may have features back-ported in.
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