Re: Off topic: Numactl "distance" wrong

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Fri Apr 03 2009 - 17:48:40 EST


On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:43 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yinghai, can you elaborate on exactly what type of interface you can
> imagine for modifying the distance for nodes through sysfs?  It seems like
> you'd have to report the entire physical topology in one write, for which
> we currently don't have an interface for beyond pxms, instead of per-node
> distances to remote nodes.

acpi_numa_slit_init() in srat_64.c will have one copy (called
acpi_slit) of SLIT, if there is SLIT from ACPI.

so if numa is enabled, could expose that acpi_slit via sysfs for the
user to update it.

YH
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