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SubjectRe: [Patch3/4]: fake numa for x86_64 patches
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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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