From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>,
discuss@x86-64.org, Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
shai@scalex86.org, clameter@engr.sgi.com, muli@il.ibm.com,
jdmason@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: x86_64: 2.6.14-rc4 swiotlb broken
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:09:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510172109.54066.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510171200490.3369@g5.osdl.org>
On Monday 17 October 2005 21:04, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So the only thing that worried me (and made me ask whether there might be
> machines where it doesn't work) is if some machines might have their high
> memory (or no memory at all) on NODE(0). It does sound unlikely, but I
> simple don't know what kind of strange NUMA configs there are out there.
It could happen in VirtualIron (they seem to interleave node 0 over many nodes
to get equal use of lowmem in 32bit NUMA), but should not in x86-64..
> And I'm definitely only interested in machines that are out there, not
> some theoretical issues.
According to Alex W. it will break their sx1000 IA64 boxen.
-Andi (who still thinks it's best to just ignore it or disable Intel NUMA)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-17 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-17 9:36 x86_64: 2.6.14-rc4 swiotlb broken Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-10-17 9:50 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-17 9:53 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-17 10:54 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-10-17 15:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 15:37 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-10-17 15:40 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-17 15:56 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2005-10-17 16:02 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-17 18:53 ` [discuss] " Russell King
2005-10-17 16:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 16:26 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-17 16:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 17:09 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-17 17:52 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-10-17 18:08 ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2005-10-17 18:27 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2005-10-17 18:32 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-17 18:45 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2005-10-17 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-17 19:09 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-10-17 19:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-17 19:47 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-10-17 23:50 ` David Lang
2005-10-18 2:29 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-10-18 3:20 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-10-18 4:28 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-10-18 6:13 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-10-18 10:09 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-10-18 18:51 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-10-19 17:18 ` Jon Mason
2005-10-20 7:27 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-17 18:38 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-10-17 18:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-10-17 19:04 ` Alex Williamson
2005-10-17 19:26 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-10-17 19:52 ` Alex Williamson
2005-10-17 15:30 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-10-17 15:43 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-17 20:44 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-17 21:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-18 0:16 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-10-18 8:23 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-18 19:07 ` [discuss] " Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-10-18 15:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-18 15:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-18 19:54 ` [discuss] " Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-10-18 21:28 ` Alex Williamson
2005-10-18 21:53 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-10-18 22:04 ` Alex Williamson
2005-10-18 22:37 ` Alex Williamson
2005-10-18 23:22 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-10-19 1:22 ` Alex Williamson
2005-10-19 2:02 ` Alex Williamson
2005-10-19 12:47 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-10-19 14:19 ` Alex Williamson
2005-10-19 18:07 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-10-19 20:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-19 22:52 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-10-20 0:51 ` Yasunori Goto
2005-10-20 7:45 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-18 22:47 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-10-17 10:02 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2005-10-17 19:07 ` Tony Luck
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