Re: [PATCH] sched/numa: Fix NUMA_DIRECT topology identification

[Rik van Riel]

On 08/10/2015 09:20 PM, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> Systems which have all nodes at a distance of at most
> 1 hop should be identified as 'NUMA_DIRECT'.
> 
> However, the scheduler incorrectly identifies it as
> 'NUMA_BACKPLANE'. This is because 'n' is assigned to
> sched_max_numa_distance but the code (mis)interprets it
> to mean 'number of hops'.
> 
> Rik had actually used sched_domains_numa_levels for detecting
> a 'NUMA_DIRECT' topology-
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=141279712429834&w=2
> 
> But that was changed when he removed the hops table in the
> subsequent version-
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=141353106106771&w=2

Good catch! Thank you!

> Fixing the issue here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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