Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: [discuss] Re: x86_64: 2.6.14-rc4 swiotlb broken | | Date | Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:09:52 +0200 |
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On Monday 17 October 2005 21:04, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So the only thing that worried me (and made me ask whether there might be > machines where it doesn't work) is if some machines might have their high > memory (or no memory at all) on NODE(0). It does sound unlikely, but I > simple don't know what kind of strange NUMA configs there are out there.
It could happen in VirtualIron (they seem to interleave node 0 over many nodes to get equal use of lowmem in 32bit NUMA), but should not in x86-64..
> And I'm definitely only interested in machines that are out there, not > some theoretical issues.
According to Alex W. it will break their sx1000 IA64 boxen.
-Andi (who still thinks it's best to just ignore it or disable Intel NUMA) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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