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From: Rohit Seth <rohitseth@google.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu>,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch3/4]: fake numa for x86_64 patches
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:59:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1164650348.6619.12.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061123090456.GD29738@bingen.suse.de>

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 10:04 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 05:34:47PM -0800, Rohit Seth wrote:
> > Fix the existing numa=fake so that ioholes are appropriately configured.
> > Currently machines that have sizeable IO holes don't work with
> > numa=fake>4.  This patch tries to equally partition the total available
> > memory in equal size chunk.  The minimum size of the fake node is set to
> > 32MB.
> 
> This patch seems to do far more than advertised in the change log? 
> 
> You're conflicting badly with Amul's numa hash function rewrite for example.
> 

Both of these patches are mucking with hash function and
populate_memnodemap.  I like Amul's approach of doing dynamic allocation
of numa hash map so that it can support >64GB of memory space.  I will
resend the patches on top of his patch (incorporating your other
feedback).

-rohit





  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-27 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-23  1:34 [Patch3/4]: fake numa for x86_64 patches Rohit Seth
2006-11-23  9:04 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-27 17:59   ` Rohit Seth [this message]
2006-11-27 18:03     ` Andi Kleen

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