From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 19:07:08 +0000 Subject: Re: 2.5.72 for ia64 released Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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