Re: 48GB NUMA-Q boots, with major IO-APIC hassles

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:58:02AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Minor extrapolation: aside from potential explosions in very unusual
> corner cases, with these hacks/workarounds 64GB NUMA-Q should boot and
> run (slowly) with an approximate LowTotal of 173296 kB. The main obstacle
> is our setup here would require an additional NR_CPUS > BITS_PER_LONG
> patch, and there isn't much local interest in even seeing whether or how
> poorly it would run without working patches (e.g. hugh's MMUPAGE_SIZE that
> I'm fwd. porting) to do something about runaway mem_map lowmem consumption.

I was only 3MB off wrt. mainline's 64GB LowTotal, not bad at all:

HighTotal:    65134592 kB
HighFree:     65116864 kB
LowTotal:       176076 kB
LowFree:        144180 kB

Turns out NR_CPUS > BITS_PER_LONG was avoided. I'll dig up whatever else
I can here. AIM7 with 10000 tasks and various other things were runnable
on 48GB, but I still need to straighten various fragmentation things out
before benching produces meaningful numbers instead of runs vs. doesn't.


-- wli