linux-kernel - Re: Off topic: Numactl "distance" wrong

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Message-ID: <20090407091326.GN17934@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:13:26 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@...ia.fr>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Chris Worley <worleys@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Off topic: Numactl "distance" wrong

> I do think that it would be helpful to add a parameter to disable parsing 
> the SLIT, however, when it is known to be incorrect.  I haven't heard your 
> objection to that yet.

Then you would get 10/20 reported (the scheduler/VM need those). Would that 
help user space? I have some doubts.

The broken Opteron BIOSes report 10/20 anyways iirc.

-Andi


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