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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH 1/6][RESEND] xen: Add NUMA support to Xen
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 20:07:49 +0200
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 a hacky halfway house between Linux and Xen, etc).
> 
> Is there an equivalent function in Xen for
> linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c:find_e820_area() ?

If not it should be easy to port. Most likely you can just use 
the x86-64 one after a few s/long/u64/


> Is this something we should do in Xen, or can we just have a static
> array of structures which hold the node information?

Sooner or late you will need local per node state for the allocator.
You can do the infrastructure for that right now

-Andi