linux-kernel - Re: [Part1 PATCH v5 00/22] x86, ACPI, numa: Parse numa info earlier

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Message-ID: <20130619100544.GB4545@dhcp-192-168-178-175.profitbricks.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:05:45 +0200
From:	Vasilis Liaskovitis <vasilis.liaskovitis@...fitbricks.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>,
	Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	mina86@...a86.com, gong.chen@...ux.intel.com, lwoodman@...hat.com,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, jweiner@...hat.com,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
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	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [Part1 PATCH v5 00/22] x86, ACPI, numa: Parse numa info earlier

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 01:19:12PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Vasilis Liaskovitis
> <vasilis.liaskovitis@...fitbricks.com> wrote:
> >> could be found at:
> >>         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-yinghai.git for-x86-mm
> >>
> >> and it is based on today's Linus tree.
> >>
> >
> > Has this patchset been tested on various numa configs?
> > I am using linux-next next-20130607 + part1 with qemu/kvm/seabios VMs. The kernel
> > boots successfully in many numa configs but while trying different memory sizes
> > for a 2 numa node VM, I noticed that booting does not complete in all cases
> > (bootup screen appears to hang but there is no output indicating an early panic)
> >
> > node0   node1    boots
> > 1G      1G       yes
> > 1G      2G       yes
> > 1G      0.5G     yes
> > 3G      2.5G     yes
> > 3G      3G       yes
> > 4G      0G       yes
> > 4G      4G       yes
> > 1.5G    1G       no
> > 2G      1G       no
> > 2G      2G       no
> > 2.5G    2G       no
> > 2.5G    2.5G     no
> >
> > linux-next next-20130607 boots al of these configs fine.
> >
> > Looks odd, perhaps I have something wrong in my setup or maybe there is a
> > seabios/qemu interaction with this patchset. I will update if I find something.
> 
> just tried 2g/2g, and it works on qemu-kvm:

thanks for testing. If you can also share qemu/seabios versions you use (release
or git commits), that would be helpful.

this is most likely some error on my setup, I 'll let you know if I conclude
otherwise.

thanks,

- Vasilis
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