linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] faking and fixing the NUMA SLIT

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Message-Id: <200707231810.32983.lenb@kernel.org>
Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:10:32 -0400
From:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	"Joachim Deguara" <joachim.deguara@....com>,
	"lkml List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, gregkh@...e.de,
	travis@....com, steiner@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] faking and fixing the NUMA SLIT

On Monday 23 July 2007 16:25, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:42:20 +0200
> Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> wrote:
> 
> > Don't think that is really useful.
> 
> I think this is useful for NUMA debugging since one may use this to
> create various slit configuration that can be useful to simulate many
> fallback scenarios that may require testing.

Why not build a new SLIT into the kernel for the test
to override the BIOS -- like we do when we want a test version of the DSDT?

-Len

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