Re: [PATCH 01/05] NUMA: Generic code

[Magnus Damm]

On 11/11/05, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 10 November 2005 10:08, Magnus Damm wrote:
> > Generic CONFIG_NUMA_EMU code.
> >
> > This patch adds generic NUMA emulation code to the kernel. The code
> > provides the architectures with functions that calculate the size of
> > emulated nodes, together with configuration stuff such as Kconfig and
> > kernel command line code.
>
> IMHO making it generic and bloated like this is total overkill
> for this simple debugginghack. I think it is better to keep
> it simple and hiden it in a architecture specific dark corners, not expose it
> like this.

My plan with breaking out the NUMA emulation code was to merge my i386
stuff with the x86_64 code, but as you say - it might be overkill.

What do you think about the fact that real NUMA nodes now can be
divided into several smaller nodes?

/ magnus
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