On Monday 27 November 2006 18:59, Rohit Seth wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 10:04 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > 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. > > > > Both of these patches are mucking with hash function and > populate_memnodemap. I like Amul's approach of doing dynamic allocation > of numa hash map so that it can support >64GB of memory space. I will > resend the patches on top of his patch (incorporating your other > feedback).
FYI I dropped Amul's patch temporarily because it causes boot failures on some systems. But it will be likely readded once that problem is fixed. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
