Re: [PATCH 0/2] faking and fixing the NUMA SLIT

From: Len Brown
Date: Mon Jul 23 2007 - 18:11:25 EST


On Monday 23 July 2007 16:25, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:42:20 +0200
> Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Don't think that is really useful.
>
> I think this is useful for NUMA debugging since one may use this to
> create various slit configuration that can be useful to simulate many
> fallback scenarios that may require testing.

Why not build a new SLIT into the kernel for the test
to override the BIOS -- like we do when we want a test version of the DSDT?

-Len

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