Re: Inverted NUMA test in setup_pcpu_remap()?

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Wed Apr 01 2009 - 01:56:46 EST


On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:31 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The test currently is:
>
>        if (!cpu_has_pse || pcpu_need_numa())
>                return -EINVAL;
>
> Don't we really mean "!pcpu_need_numa()"?
>
> The way I read the intent, setup_pcpu_remap() should be used in the
> NUMA case.  But that's not what's happening because of how this test
> is coded.
>
> In fact, the test here is identical to the one used in
> setup_pcpu_embed()
> --

you are right. on one 4 sockets system got

[ 0.000000] PERCPU: Allocated 471 4k pages, static data 1925472 bytes

that is from setup_pcpu_4k...

YH
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