From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263130AbTDFV7B (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 17:59:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263131AbTDFV7B (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 17:59:01 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:25244 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263130AbTDFV66 (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 17:58:58 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 15:10:01 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: Robert Love , Linux Kernel , Martin Bligh Subject: Re: 2.5.65-preempt booting on 32way NUMAQ Message-ID: <20030406221001.GQ993@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Zwane Mwaikambo , Robert Love , Linux Kernel , Martin Bligh References: <20030406112340.GM993@holomorphy.com> <1049653846.753.156.camel@localhost> <20030406214631.GP993@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> I presumed the audit was perpetual and/or ongoing. On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 05:50:36PM -0400, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > Martin says the NUMAQ per node stuff isn't preempt safe, might be worth > looking there too. The only scary bit is numa_node_id() in __alloc_pages(); this is fine because it's speculative anyway. There isn't much usage of numa_node_id() in the i386 arch code. -- wli