Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Apr 2009 23:53:51 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Off topic: Numactl "distance" wrong |
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On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 02:43:32PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > Who would be the right person (or list) to talk about this? > > > > Your BIOS vendor whose code reported the wrong values. Not that it matters > > really on small systems. > > > > The numactl --hardware values are coming directly from the sysfs per-node > distance interface, so this may not be a result of erroneous BIOS data but > rather the lack of a SLIT to describe the physical topology better.
That's the same really. Think about it. No SLIT on a NUMA system is a wrong SLIT.
BTW there are more cases, like illegal slit which is also replaced with 10/20.
-Andi
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