Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/3] hugetlb: numafy several functions

[Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>]

On 25.05.2007 [16:55:59 -0400], Lee Schermerhorn wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 12:43 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > Andrew,
> > 
> <snip>
> > > 
> > > Yeah, if folks like the interface and are satisfied with it working,
> > > I'll rebase onto -mm for Andrew's sanity.
> > 
> > Would you like me to rebase onto 2.6.22-rc2-mm1? I think this is a very
> > useful feature for NUMA systems that may have an unequal distribution of
> > memory and don't like the hugepage allocations provided by the global
> > sysctl.
> > 
> > If I recall right, the collisions with Lee's hugetlb.c changes were
> > pretty small, so it shouldn't be any trouble at all.
> 
> Nish:
> 
> Unless I missed your post, I think Andrew is waiting to hear from you
> on the results of your testing of the 22-rc2 based v4 patch before
> merging the huge page allocation fix.

Err, right.

Preliminary results:

x86 2-node success
x86_64 4-node success

ppc64 4-node fails with mainline, still investigating
x86 1-node fails with mainline, believe it is machine setup error,
	trying with another one

Thanks,
Nish

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Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center

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