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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Rohit Seth <rohitseth@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, 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: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:04:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061123090456.GD29738@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1164245687.29844.153.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com>

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.

I don't see why you need to change that much code for this relatively
simple change anyways.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-23  9:05 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 [this message]
2006-11-27 17:59   ` Rohit Seth
2006-11-27 18:03     ` Andi Kleen

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