Re: [PATCH] Fake NUMA emulation for PowerPC

[Kumar Gala]

On Dec 7, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Balbir Singh wrote:

> Olof Johansson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:44:25AM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> >
> > > Comments are as always welcome!
> >
> > Care to explain what this is useful for? (Not saying it's a stupid  
> > idea,
> > just wondering what the reason for doing it is).
>
> In my case, I use it to test parts of my memory controller patches  
> on an
> emulated NUMA machine. I plan to use it to test out page migration
> across nodes.

Can you explain that further.  I'm still not clear on why this is  
useful.

- k
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