Re: 2.5.72 for ia64 released

Jesse Barnes
2003-06-20T19:07:08Z

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:02:03PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 11:53:03 -0700, jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) said:
>
> Jesse> Yeah, that's what I meant. Jack's patch to 2.4 has been
> Jesse> tested on sn2, DIG, zx1, NEC, and Bull machines, as a generic
> Jesse> kernel for the first three at least (don't know what NEC and
> Jesse> Bull did for their testing).
>
> But which ones are NUMA with node-scattered physical memory? sn2 for

Do you mean discontiguous memory within a node? Jack has the memory
maps for those other machines, so he might know.

> Jesse> So you're worried about the performance penalty of turning on NUMA for
> Jesse> generic kernels?
>
> Yes. Actually, I'm concerned about size, too. It would be good to
> have an init-mem-like approach so that we can free all the code/data
> for unused machvec code.

That would be a nice thing to add, hmm...

Jesse