From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 23:32:16 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: scalable kmap (was Re: vm lock contention reduction) Message-ID: <20020709063216.GW25360@holomorphy.com> References: <3D2A7466.AD867DA7@zip.com.au> <1221230287.1026170151@[10.10.2.3]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1221230287.1026170151@[10.10.2.3]> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli , Linus Torvalds , Rik van Riel , "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: > > Don't tell me those NUMAQ's are using IDE ;) > > No, that's one level of pain I don't have to deal with ;-) > > Now switched fibrechannel SANs on a machine that really needs > NUMA aware multipath IO is more likely to be a problem, on > the other hand ... but I can live without that for now ... > > > But seriously, what's the problem? We really do need the big > > boxes to be able to test 2.5 right now, and any blockage needs > > to be cleared away. > > You really want the current list? The whole of our team is > shifting focus to 2.5, which'll make life more interesting ;-) > On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 11:15:52PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > wli might care to elaborate on 2 & 3, since I think he helped > them identify / fix (helped maybe meaning did). Oh, I forgot, there was a bad v86 info thing on the 9th cpu woken that I never finished debugging, too. And the MAX_IO_APICS issue, which is easily solved by just increasing the constant #ifdef CONFIG_MULTIQUAD as usual. This panics before console_init() though, which makes it seem more painful than it really is. Cheers, Bill -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/