Re: [Patch3/4]: fake numa for x86_64 patches

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Nov 23 2006 - 04:05:55 EST


On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 05:34:47PM -0800, Rohit Seth wrote:
> Fix the existing numa=fake so that ioholes are appropriately configured.
> Currently machines that have sizeable IO holes don't work with
> numa=fake>4. This patch tries to equally partition the total available
> memory in equal size chunk. The minimum size of the fake node is set to
> 32MB.

This patch seems to do far more than advertised in the change log?

You're conflicting badly with Amul's numa hash function rewrite for example.

I don't see why you need to change that much code for this relatively
simple change anyways.

-Andi
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