Re: [OOPS] 2.6.9-rc4, dual Opteron, NUMA, 8GB

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Wed Oct 13 2004 - 15:55:31 EST


On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 01:49:08PM -0700, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > > I was just about to mail and report that disabling NUMA does help:
> > >
> > > NUMA + mke2fs on LVM: OOPS (mailed earlier)
> > > no NUMA + mke2fs on LVM: okay
> > > NUMA + mke2fs on sdb1: OOPS (below)
> > > no NUMA + mke2fs on sdb1: okay
> > >
> > > no NUMA + mount e2fs on LVM: okay
> > > no NUMA + mount e2fs on sb1: okay
> > > NUMA + mount e2fs on LVM: okay
> > > NUMA + mount e2fs on sb1: untested, assume okay
> >
> >
> > Honestly it smells like a devmapper bug, with the pertinent test case
> > being some sort of behavior not normally generated by filesystem use
> > (the most common use case for block devices).
>
> Except for the data point above:
>
> NUMA + mke2fs on sdb1: OOPS (below)
>
> That's with devmapper totally out of the picture.

Ahh, indeed.

I think Andi did NUMA on x86-64?

Jeff



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