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From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
To: "Ravikiran Thirumalai" <kiran@scalemp.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	shai@scalemp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: make amd quad core 8 socket system not be clustered_box v2
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:16:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86802c440802261516n1ca8ef6eh5e6abdd0c3f959dd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080226212418.GJ5914@localdomain>

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalemp.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:10:57PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>  >On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Ravikiran Thirumalai
>  ><kiran@scalemp.com> wrote:
>  >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:00:58AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>  >>  >
>  >>  >1. if acpi=off ?
>  >>
>  >>  Well that is not a realistic scenario for any multi chassi NUMA machine,
>  >>  since the proximity information is very important and turning acpi off
>  >>  deprives the OS of this information.
>  >
>  >actually OS should detect the distance instead of rely on SLIT.
>
>  How does it do that?  ACPI SRAT is needed to determine this, and it wouldn't
>  work if acpi=off.

srat only have apicid to node mapping, and ram to node mapping.

for amd64 system, when acpi=off
ram to node mapping can be retrieved from pci conf space
apicid to node mapping could be calculated too... with boot_cpu_id
...plus coreid bits.

YH

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-26 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-21 10:58 [PATCH] x86_64: make amd quad core 8 socket system not be clustered_box Yinghai Lu
2008-02-22 12:25 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-22 19:02   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-22 19:00     ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-22 19:04       ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-22 19:07         ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-22 19:07           ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-22 19:10             ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-23  8:55               ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-24  5:48       ` [PATCH] x86_64: make amd quad core 8 socket system not be clustered_box v2 Yinghai Lu
2008-02-24  7:50         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-24 12:29         ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-24 23:00           ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-25  1:52             ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-25  2:32             ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-25  5:36               ` [PATCH] x86_64: for apic_is_clustered_box for vsmp v2 Yinghai Lu
2008-02-25  6:43                 ` [PATCH] x86: vSMP selection in config Yinghai Lu
2008-02-26 19:40                   ` Kconfig configuration restore bug [Was: x86: vSMP selection in config] Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-27  2:59                     ` Roman Zippel
2008-02-29  4:09                     ` [PATCH 1/3] fix recursive dependencies Roman Zippel
2008-02-29  5:05                       ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-29 13:22                         ` Roman Zippel
2008-02-29 17:40                           ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-29 20:05                             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-29 20:04                       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-29  4:10                     ` [PATCH 2/3] fix choice dependency check Roman Zippel
2008-04-28 21:08                       ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-29  4:11                     ` [PATCH 3/3] add named choice group Roman Zippel
2008-02-26 20:05                   ` [PATCH] x86: vSMP selection in config Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-26 21:03                     ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-25  5:39           ` [PATCH] x86_64: make amd quad core 8 socket system not be clustered_box v2 Yinghai Lu
2008-02-25 19:08           ` Ravikiran Thirumalai
2008-02-25 22:05             ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-26  3:39               ` Ravikiran Thirumalai
2008-02-26  3:46                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-26  4:05                   ` Ravikiran Thirumalai
2008-02-26  5:27                     ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-26 18:42                       ` Ravikiran Thirumalai
2008-02-26 19:00                         ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-26 20:32                           ` Ravikiran Thirumalai
2008-02-26 21:09                             ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-26 21:10                             ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-26 21:24                               ` Ravikiran Thirumalai
2008-02-26 23:16                                 ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2008-02-26 23:31                                   ` Ravikiran Thirumalai
2008-02-26 23:41                                     ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-22 19:08     ` [PATCH] x86_64: make amd quad core 8 socket system not be clustered_box Yinghai Lu
2008-02-22 18:59       ` Andi Kleen

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