From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Wedgwood Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:54:05 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] (2.4.x bk) efi_memmap_walk_uc 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 Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:49:04PM -0500, Jack Steiner wrote: > True, but on NUMA systems (at least ours) you want MINSTATE area to > be node local for other reasons. Some types of errors cause the > interconnect to fail. I think that's a slightly different issue but related. Being able to avoid any platform specific code here would be good thing and should be possible if we are given a cpu/nodeid in the allocator. > The PAL/SAL should be able to log errors without making offnode > references. The question then is are these areas as used by the kernel going to be referenced globally or only on a cpu/node local sense? Tony? --cw