Re: [PATCH 0/2] Relax restrictions on setting CONFIG_NUMA on x86

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Mon Jan 21 2008 - 09:35:25 EST


On (21/01/08 09:38), KOSAKI Motohiro didst pronounce:
> Hi
>
> > A fix[1] was merged to the x86.git tree that allowed NUMA kernels to boot
> > on normal x86 machines (and not just NUMA-Q, Summit etc.). I took a look
> > at the restrictions on setting NUMA on x86 to see if they could be lifted.
>
> Interesting!
>
> I will test tomorrow.

Thanks.

> I think this patch become easy to the porting of fakenuma.
>

It would be great if that was available, particularly if it could fake
memoryless nodes as that is a place where we've found a few
difficult-to-reproduce bugs.

--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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