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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:14:14 +1000 (AEST) From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au> To: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org Cc: anton@...ba.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, nikunj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, bharata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com Subject: Re: [RESEND] powerpc/numa: initialize distance lookup table from drconf path On Thu, 2015-02-07 at 05:39:01 UTC, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote: > In some situations, a NUMA guest that supports > ibm,dynamic-memory-reconfiguration node will end up having flat NUMA > distances between nodes. This is because of two problems in the > current code. > > 1) Different representations of associativity lists. > > There is an assumption about the associativity list in > initialize_distance_lookup_table(). Associativity list has two forms: > > a) [cpu,memory]@x/ibm,associativity has following > format: > <N> <N integers> > > b) ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory/ibm,associativity-lookup-arrays > > <M> <N> <M associativity lists each having N integers> > M = the number of associativity lists > N = the number of entries per associativity list > > Fix initialize_distance_lookup_table() so that it does not assume > "case a". And update the caller to skip the length field before > sending the associativity list. > > 2) Distance table not getting updated from drconf path. > > Node distance table will not get initialized in certain cases as > ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory path does not initialize the > lookup table. > > Call initialize_distance_lookup_table() from drconf path with > appropriate associativity list. > > Reported-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> > Signed-off-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> > Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org> Applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/1d805440a364b4a68562 cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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