Re: 64GB NUMA-Q after pgcl

Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-03-28T07:58:08Z

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> Sure. On NUMA-Q mem_map[] is not allocated using bootmem except for
> node 0. Various other bootmem allocations are also proportional to
> memory as measured in units of PAGE_SIZE, but not all.
>
> So all we're seeing here is node 0's mem_map[] with "miscellaneous"
> bootmem allocations thrown in, whether reduced or increased.
>
> This is not very reflective of what's going on as the majority of mem_map[]
> is allocated through a custom reservation mechanism as opposed to bootmem.

Thanks, nice work btw, although the core guts of this stuff is somewhat of
a mystery to some of us ;)

Zwane
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