Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sat 2007-12-08 09:52:06, Balbir Singh wrote:
>> David Rientjes wrote:
>>> On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Balbir Singh wrote:
>>>
>>>> To be able to test the memory controller under NUMA, I use fake NUMA
>>>> nodes. x86-64 has a similar feature, the code I have here is the
>>>> simplest I could come up with for PowerPC.
>>>>
>>> Magnus Damm had patches from over a year ago that, I believe, made much of
>>> the x86_64 fake NUMA code generic so that it could be extended for
>>> architectures such as i386. Perhaps he could resurrect those patches if
>>> there is wider interest in such a tool.
>> That would be a very interesting patch, but what I have here is the
>> simplest patch and we could build on it incrementally. The interface is
>> non-standard but it does amazing things for 59 lines of code change.
>
> Well, maybe it is amazing, but having non-standard interface is also
> wrong...
>
I tend to agree with you, but in this case it's mostly debug
infrastructure that is architecture specific.
--
Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
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