Re: [PATCH] slab: cache alloc cleanups

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jan 02 2007 - 15:24:24 EST


On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:47:06 +0200 (EET)
Pekka J Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have been unable to find a NUMA-capable tester for this patch,

Any x86_64 box can be used to test NUMA code via the numa=fake=N boot option.

fake-numa is somewhat sick in mainline and you might find that it doesn't
work right on some machines, or that it fails with high values of N, but
works OK with N=2. There are fixes to address this problem in -mm.
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