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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Matt Tolentino <metolent@snoqualmie.dp.intel.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, apw@shadowen.org, haveblue@us.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] add x86-64 Kconfig options for sparsemem
Date: 18 May 2005 18:25:28 +0200
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 18:25:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050518162528.GC88141@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505181524.j4IFOfew026909@snoqualmie.dp.intel.com>

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:24:41AM -0700, Matt Tolentino wrote:
> 
> Add the requisite arch specific Kconfig options to enable 
> the use of the sparsemem implementation for NUMA kernels
> on x86-64.

How much did you test sparsemem on x86-64 NUMA ? 

There are various cases that probably need to be checked,
AMD with SRAT, AMD without SRAT, AMD with more than 4GB RAM, 
Summit(?), NUMA EMULATION etc.

If all that works I would have no problem with removing the
old code.

-Andi



WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Matt Tolentino <metolent@snoqualmie.dp.intel.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, apw@shadowen.org, haveblue@us.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] add x86-64 Kconfig options for sparsemem
Date: 18 May 2005 18:25:28 +0200
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 18:25:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050518162528.GC88141@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505181524.j4IFOfew026909@snoqualmie.dp.intel.com>

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:24:41AM -0700, Matt Tolentino wrote:
> 
> Add the requisite arch specific Kconfig options to enable 
> the use of the sparsemem implementation for NUMA kernels
> on x86-64.

How much did you test sparsemem on x86-64 NUMA ? 

There are various cases that probably need to be checked,
AMD with SRAT, AMD without SRAT, AMD with more than 4GB RAM, 
Summit(?), NUMA EMULATION etc.

If all that works I would have no problem with removing the
old code.

-Andi


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-18 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-18 15:24 [patch 2/4] add x86-64 Kconfig options for sparsemem Matt Tolentino
2005-05-18 15:24 ` Matt Tolentino
2005-05-18 16:25 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-05-18 16:25   ` Andi Kleen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-18 16:43 Matt Tolentino
2005-05-18 16:43 ` Matt Tolentino
2005-05-18 16:53 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-18 16:53   ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-19 14:53   ` Dave Hansen
2005-05-19 14:53     ` Dave Hansen

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