On Thu, 2017-01-12 at 11:22 -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 01/12/2017 07:50 AM, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> > I don't think we do that any longer, and that may be part of the
> > reason
> > why we missed this one?
> 
> I believe you needed to be on a multi-socket system to catch this
> bug.
> That's why, for example, my tests missed it --- the boxes that I use
> are
> all single-node.
>
Yeah, while I do test on NUMA, but I do mostly Xen development so I
test the latest Xen but (most of the time) with whatever distro kernel
is easier to use (although, usually fairly recent ones, like 4.8).

Anyway, we should have some multi-socket boxes on OSSTest, AFAICR.

Dario
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