From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932155Ab3B1WSe (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:18:34 -0500 Received: from e8.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.138]:54633 "EHLO e8.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752765Ab3B1WSd (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:18:33 -0500 Message-ID: <512FD7B2.40901@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:18:26 -0800 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jlmales@gmail.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Commit 025cee7f8fef02af09b03c8e1cd9843cb32adf9b References: <20130228171143.5c32726d.jlmales@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130228171143.5c32726d.jlmales@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13022822-9360-0000-0000-0000111F5C41 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/28/2013 02:11 PM, John L. Males wrote: > Would the Linux Kernel under "unique" Virtual Memory Subsystem > stress excite some of these "subtle bugs" in Linux Kernels > prior to this change set for Commit > 025cee7f8fef02af09b03c8e1cd9843cb32adf9b? I don't think stress would really do it. It also, as far as I know, only applies to 32-bit NUMA kernels where CONFIG_NUMA was turned on _and_ where the machine actually was NUMA.