linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH x86/mm UPDATED] x86-64, NUMA: Fix distance table handling

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Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:54:46 +0100
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	tglx@...utronix.de, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH x86/mm UPDATED] x86-64, NUMA: Fix distance table
 handling

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 07:48:00AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On 03/11/2011 12:33 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:29:38AM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >> Also, I don't think your patch is correct.  Even if there is phys_dist
> >                                                               ^
> > 							      no
> >> table, emu distance tables should be built because emulated nids don't
> >> map to physical nids one to one.  ie. Two different emulated nids can
> >> share a physical node and the distance table should explicitly reflect
> >> that.
> 
> ok, when original SLIT is not there, mean only one really node.
> so the new distance table should be filled with LOCAL_DISTANCE.

No, NUMA implementation can skip numa_set_distance() entirely if the
distance is LOCAL_DISTANCE if nids are equal, REMOTE_DISTANCE
otherwise.  In fact, any amdtopology configuraiton would behave this
way, so it's incorrect to fill the table with LOCAL_DISTANCE.  You
have to check the physnid mapping and build new table whether physical
table exists or not.  Lack of physical distance table doesn't mean all
nodes are LOCAL_DISTANCE.

-- 
tejun
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