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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Chris Worley <worleys@gmail.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Off topic: Numactl "distance" wrong
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 23:53:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090403215351.GF11935@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0904031438540.3646@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 02:43:32PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > > Who would be the right person (or list) to talk about this?
> > 
> > Your BIOS vendor whose code reported the wrong values. Not that it matters
> > really on small systems.
> > 
> 
> The numactl --hardware values are coming directly from the sysfs per-node 
> distance interface, so this may not be a result of erroneous BIOS data but 
> rather the lack of a SLIT to describe the physical topology better.

That's the same really. Think about it. No SLIT on a NUMA system is a wrong
SLIT.

BTW there are more cases, like illegal slit which is also replaced
with 10/20.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-03 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-03 20:02 Off topic: Numactl "distance" wrong Chris Worley
2009-04-03 20:16 ` Brice Goglin
2009-04-03 20:49   ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-03 21:01     ` Cliff Wickman
2009-04-03 21:43       ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-03 21:24 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-03 21:43   ` David Rientjes
2009-04-03 21:48     ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-03 21:52       ` David Rientjes
2009-04-03 21:55       ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-03 22:15         ` Yinghai Lu
2009-04-07  2:52         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-07  6:17           ` Brice Goglin
2009-04-07  7:05             ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-07  7:40               ` Brice Goglin
2009-04-07  7:56                 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-07  7:44               ` David Rientjes
2009-04-07  7:59                 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-07  8:08                   ` David Rientjes
2009-04-07  8:23                     ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-07  8:30                       ` David Rientjes
2009-04-07  9:13                         ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-03 21:53     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-04-03 21:54       ` David Rientjes
2009-04-03 22:18         ` Yinghai Lu

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