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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	shai@scalex86.org
Subject: Re: [patch] mm: Ensure proper alignment for node_remap_start_pfn
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:25:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1122575122.20800.32.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050728181421.GA3842@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 11:14 -0700, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> SRAT need not guarantee any alignment at all in the memory affinity 
> structure (the address in 64-bit byte address)

The Summit machines (the only x86 user of the SRAT) have other hardware
guarantees about alignment, so I guess that's why we've never
encountered it.  Are you using the SRAT on non-Summit hardware?  That
doesn't seem possible:

arch/i386/Kconfig:
        config ACPI_SRAT
                bool
                default y
                depends on NUMA && (X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH)
        
> And yes, there are x86-numa
> machines that run the latest kernel tree and face this problem.

I didn't say "run the latest kernel tree".  *In* the latest kernel
tree :)

-- Dave

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      reply	other threads:[~2005-07-28 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-28  0:42 Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-07-28  1:17 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-28  1:31   ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-07-28 17:20     ` Dave Hansen
2005-07-28 18:14       ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-07-28 18:25         ` Dave Hansen [this message]

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