Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:34:16 +0900 | From | Magnus Damm <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/05] NUMA: Generic code |
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On 11/11/05, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > On Thursday 10 November 2005 10:08, Magnus Damm wrote: > > Generic CONFIG_NUMA_EMU code. > > > > This patch adds generic NUMA emulation code to the kernel. The code > > provides the architectures with functions that calculate the size of > > emulated nodes, together with configuration stuff such as Kconfig and > > kernel command line code. > > IMHO making it generic and bloated like this is total overkill > for this simple debugginghack. I think it is better to keep > it simple and hiden it in a architecture specific dark corners, not expose it > like this.
My plan with breaking out the NUMA emulation code was to merge my i386 stuff with the x86_64 code, but as you say - it might be overkill.
What do you think about the fact that real NUMA nodes now can be divided into several smaller nodes?
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