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From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	clameter@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	lee.schermerhorn@hp.com, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, eric.whitney@hp.com,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 13/25] Noreclaim LRU Infrastructure
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:05:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1213135535.7261.10.camel@nimitz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080610143334.c53d7d8a.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 14:33 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Maybe it's time to bite the bullet and kill i386 NUMA support.  afaik
> it's just NUMAQ and a 2-node NUMAish machine which IBM made (as400?)

Yeah, IBM sold a couple of these "interesting" 32-bit NUMA machines:

https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/tips0267.html?Open

I think those maxed out at 8 nodes, ever.  But, no distro ever turned
NUMA on for i386, so no one actually depends on it working.  We do have
a bunch of systems that we use for testing and so forth.  It'd be a
shame to make these suck *too* much.  The NUMA-Q is probably also so
intertwined with CONFIG_NUMA that we'd likely never get it running
again.

I'd rather just bloat page->flags on these platforms or move the
sparsemem/zone/node bits elsewhere than kill NUMA support.  

-- Dave

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-10 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080606202838.390050172@redhat.com>
2008-06-06 20:28 ` Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-07  1:05   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-08 20:34     ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-08 20:57       ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-08 21:32         ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-08 21:43           ` Ray Lee
2008-06-08 23:22           ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-08 23:34             ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-08 23:54               ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-09  0:56                 ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-09  6:10                   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-09 13:44                     ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-09  2:58                 ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-09  5:44                   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-10 19:17                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-10 19:37                   ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-10 21:33                     ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-10 21:48                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-10 22:05                       ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2008-06-11  5:09                       ` Paul Mundt
2008-06-11  6:16                         ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-11  6:29                           ` Paul Mundt
2008-06-11 12:06                           ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-11 14:09                           ` Removing node flags from page->flags was Re: [PATCH -mm 13/25] Noreclaim LRU Infrastructure II Andi Kleen
2008-06-11 19:03                       ` [PATCH -mm 13/25] Noreclaim LRU Infrastructure Andy Whitcroft
2008-06-11 20:52                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-11 23:25                         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-06-08 22:03         ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-08 21:07       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-06-10 20:09     ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 15/25] Ramfs and Ram Disk pages are non-reclaimable Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-07  1:05   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-08  4:32     ` Greg KH
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 17/25] Mlocked Pages " Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-07  1:07   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-07  5:38     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-06-10  3:31     ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-10 12:50       ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-10 21:14       ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-10 21:43         ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-06-10 21:57           ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-11 16:01             ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-06-10 23:48           ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-11 15:29             ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-06-11  1:00     ` Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 19/25] Handle mlocked pages during map, remap, unmap Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel
2008-06-06 20:28 ` [PATCH -mm 21/25] Cull non-reclaimable pages in fault path Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel, Lee Schermerhorn
2008-06-06 20:29 ` [PATCH -mm 23/25] Noreclaim LRU scan sysctl Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel, Lee Schermerhorn
2008-06-06 20:29 ` [PATCH -mm 25/25] Noreclaim LRU and Mlocked Pages Documentation Rik van Riel, Rik van Riel

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