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From: Chao Zhu <chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH] PPC: Fix NUMA node numbering on IBM
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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 16:56:14 +0800
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David,

Let me take a look.

On 2015/9/16 16:09, David Marchand wrote:
> Hello Chao,
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Chao Zhu <chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com 
> <mailto:chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>> wrote:
>
>     Actually, without this change, DPDK can't work properly on PPC64
>     little endian platform. It'll report "EAL: Not enough memory
>     available! Requested: xxxMB, available: xxxMB" such kind of error.
>     But for users, they don't know that changing the value of
>     CONFIG_RTE_MAX_NUMA_NODES can fix this.  That why I invoke this patch.
>
>
> Sorry, I forgot to reply in this thread.
>
> Well, to me, this is a workaround.
> Yes it will work, but what happens if tomorrow we have some hardware 
> that tells us that it has some numa node which 60000 index ?
>
> I think we need a rework in eal to proerly handle this, like I said in 
> this mail :
> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-September/023630.html
>
> Do you think you can look into this ?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- 
> David Marchand