linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET x86/numa] x86-64, NUMA: bring sanity to NUMA emulation

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Date:	Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:44:42 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
CC:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org, brgerst@...il.com, gorcunov@...il.com,
	shaohui.zheng@...el.com, rientjes@...gle.com, hpa@...ux.intel.com,
	ankita@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET x86/numa] x86-64, NUMA: bring sanity to NUMA emulation

On 02/14/2011 06:28 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> NUMA emulation is quite convoluted involving unnecessary mapping and
>>> reverse mapping between apicids, PXMs, nodes and memory addresses.
>>> This patchset tries to restore some sanity to the whole thing.
>>>
>>> Tested on an opteron NUMA machine which can do both ACPI and AMD
>>> configs.  All NUMA configs, emulations, !NUMA and UP work as expected.
>>>
>>> This patchset is on top of tip/x86/numa[1] +
>>> bring-sanity-to-NUMA-configuration patchset[2] and contains the
>>> following 7 patches.
>>>
>>>  0001-x86-64-NUMA-Trivial-changes-to-prepare-for-emulation.patch
>>>  0002-x86-64-NUMA-Build-and-use-direct-emulated-nid-phys-n.patch
>>>  0003-x86-64-NUMA-Make-emulation-code-build-numa_meminfo-a.patch
>>>  0004-x86-64-NUMA-Wrap-node-ID-during-emulation.patch
>>>  0005-x86-64-NUMA-Emulate-directly-from-numa_meminfo.patch
>>>  0006-x86-64-NUMA-Unify-emulated-apicid-node-mapping-trans.patch
>>>  0007-x86-64-NUMA-Unify-emulated-distance-mapping.patch
>>>
>>> The patchset is available in the following git branch.
>>>
>>>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git x86_64-numa-emu-unify
>>>
>>> Diffstat follows.
>>>
>>>  arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h    |    6
>>>  arch/x86/include/asm/amd_nb.h  |    4
>>>  arch/x86/include/asm/numa_64.h |    1
>>>  arch/x86/mm/amdtopology_64.c   |   47 ----
>>>  arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c          |  429 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>>>  arch/x86/mm/srat_64.c          |   87 --------
>>>  6 files changed, 197 insertions(+), 377 deletions(-)
>>
>> wonder if numa_emu code could be put into one single file like numa_emu.c
> 
> That would be nice if it can be done sanely.
> 
> We could do it as a delta, on top of these existing patches, to not delay the 
> testing of these fixes/improvements, they are looking pretty good (on paper) 
> already, do you agree?

yes.

I went through TJ's numa-unify patches, and it looks good to me.
<except that I don't like putting setup_bootmem() etc in numa_register_memblks,
 but that could be addressed later>

For the numa-emu-unify, may need David to have a look on them.

Thanks

Yinghai

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