From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759883AbYAUOfZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:35:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754119AbYAUOfP (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:35:15 -0500 Received: from gir.skynet.ie ([193.1.99.77]:60592 "EHLO gir.skynet.ie" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754068AbYAUOfO (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:35:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:35:09 +0000 From: Mel Gorman To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@shadowen.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Relax restrictions on setting CONFIG_NUMA on x86 Message-ID: <20080121143508.GA8485@csn.ul.ie> References: <20080118153529.12646.5260.sendpatchset@skynet.skynet.ie> <20080121093702.8FC2.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080121093702.8FC2.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On (21/01/08 09:38), KOSAKI Motohiro didst pronounce: > Hi > > > A fix[1] was merged to the x86.git tree that allowed NUMA kernels to boot > > on normal x86 machines (and not just NUMA-Q, Summit etc.). I took a look > > at the restrictions on setting NUMA on x86 to see if they could be lifted. > > Interesting! > > I will test tomorrow. Thanks. > I think this patch become easy to the porting of fakenuma. > It would be great if that was available, particularly if it could fake memoryless nodes as that is a place where we've found a few difficult-to-reproduce bugs. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab