Re: [PATCH 6/6] hugetlb: update hugetlb documentation for mempolicy based management.

David Rientjes
2009-09-14T19:14:05Z

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:

> > Hmm, I rewrote most of fake NUMA a couple years ago. What problems are
> > you having with it?
> >
>
> On PPC64, the parameters behave differently. I couldn't convince it to
> create more than one NUMA node. On x86-64, the NUMA nodes appeared to
> exist and would be visible on /proc/buddyinfo for example but the sysfs
> directories for the fake nodes were not created so nr_hugepages couldn't
> be examined on a per-node basis for example.
>

I don't know anything about the ppc64 fake NUMA, but the sysfs node
directories should certainly be created on x86_64. I'll look into it
because that's certainly a bug. Thanks.