Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Patch3/4]: fake numa for x86_64 patches | From | Rohit Seth <> | Date | Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:59:08 -0800 |
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On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 10:04 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 05:34:47PM -0800, Rohit Seth wrote: > > Fix the existing numa=fake so that ioholes are appropriately configured. > > Currently machines that have sizeable IO holes don't work with > > numa=fake>4. This patch tries to equally partition the total available > > memory in equal size chunk. The minimum size of the fake node is set to > > 32MB. > > This patch seems to do far more than advertised in the change log? > > You're conflicting badly with Amul's numa hash function rewrite for example. >
Both of these patches are mucking with hash function and populate_memnodemap. I like Amul's approach of doing dynamic allocation of numa hash map so that it can support >64GB of memory space. I will resend the patches on top of his patch (incorporating your other feedback).
-rohit
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