[Lustre-discuss] NUMA IO and Lustre

[Johann Lombardi]

On May 12, 2009, at 4:07 PM, Sébastien Buisson wrote:
> Concretely, we would like to know if it is possible in Lustre to  
> bind an
> OST to a specific network interface, so that this OST is only reached
> through this interface (thus avoiding the NUMA IO factor in our  
> case) ?

No, i fear this cannot be done easily now, since server_sb2mti()
registers all the available nids. However, it should not be very  
difficult to add
an option to only register a subset of the available nids for a given  
target.

Johann