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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@shadowen.org, hch@lst.de,
	manfred@colorfullife.com, christoph@lameter.com, pj@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: cache alloc cleanups
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 12:22:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070102122221.9cbca597.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701021545290.21477@sbz-30.cs.Helsinki.FI>

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:47:06 +0200 (EET)
Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:

> I have been unable to find a NUMA-capable tester for this patch, 

Any x86_64 box can be used to test NUMA code via the numa=fake=N boot option.

fake-numa is somewhat sick in mainline and you might find that it doesn't
work right on some machines, or that it fails with high values of N, but
works OK with N=2.  There are fixes to address this problem in -mm.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-02 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-02 13:47 Pekka J Enberg
2007-01-02 14:29 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-01-02 16:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-02 20:27   ` Pekka Enberg
2007-01-02 20:22 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-01-04 21:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-04 21:23   ` Pekka Enberg
2007-03-22 22:34 ` [PATCH] slab: NUMA kmem_cache diet Eric Dumazet
2007-03-23  7:09   ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-03-23  7:45     ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-23 13:00   ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-03-23 14:52     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-05 11:46 [PATCH] slab: cache alloc cleanups Pekka J Enberg
2007-01-05 19:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-05 19:50 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-05 22:12   ` Christoph Lameter

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