linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Fix fake numa on ppc

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Date:	Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:36:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Ankita Garg <ankita@...ibm.com>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>,
	Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Fix fake numa on ppc

On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Ankita Garg wrote:

> Currently, the behavior of fake numa is not so on x86 as well? Below is
> a sample output from a single node x86 system booted with numa=fake=8:
> 
> # cat node0/cpulist
> 
> # cat node1/cpulist
> 
> ...
> # cat node6/cpulist
> 
> # cat node7/cpulist
> 0-7
> 
> Presently, just fixing the cpu association issue with ppc, as explained
> in my previous mail.
> 

Right, I'm proposing an alternate mapping scheme (which we've used for 
years) for both platforms such that a cpu is bound (and is set in 
cpumask_of_node()) to each fake node with which it has physical affinity.  
That is the only way for zonelist ordering in node order, task migration 
from offlined cpus, correct sched domains, etc.  I can propose a patchset 
for x86_64 to do exactly this if there aren't any objections and I hope 
you'll help do ppc.
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