linux-kernel - Re: Linux Kernel Commit 025cee7f8fef02af09b03c8e1cd9843cb32adf9b

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Message-ID: <512FD7B2.40901@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:18:26 -0800
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	jlmales@...il.com
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Commit 025cee7f8fef02af09b03c8e1cd9843cb32adf9b

On 02/28/2013 02:11 PM, John L. Males wrote:
> Would the Linux Kernel under "unique" Virtual Memory Subsystem
> stress excite some of these "subtle bugs" in Linux Kernels
> prior to this change set for Commit
> 025cee7f8fef02af09b03c8e1cd9843cb32adf9b?

I don't think stress would really do it.

It also, as far as I know, only applies to 32-bit NUMA kernels where
CONFIG_NUMA was turned on _and_ where the machine actually was NUMA.

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