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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86, sched: allow topolgies where NUMA nodes share an LLC
On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 12:39:28PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
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> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
>
> Our SMP boot code has a series of assumptions about what NUMA
> nodes are that are enforced via topology_sane(). Once upon a
> time, we verified that a CPU package only contained a single node
> (fixed in cebf15eb0). Today, we verify that SMT siblings and
> LLCs do not span nodes.
>
> The SMT siblings assumption is safe, but the LLC is violated on
> current hardware.

What does? That does sound broken. How can a cache domain sanely span
memory controllers?

This needs far more explanation.

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