Re: [RFC 0/2] Memoryless nodes and kworker

2014-07-18 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Hello, > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:12:01AM -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > > why aren't these callers using kthread_create_on_cpu()? That API was > > It is using that. There just are other data structures

Re: [RFC 0/2] Memoryless nodes and kworker

2014-07-18 Thread Nish Aravamudan
Hi Tejun, [I found the other thread where you made these points, thanks you for expressing them so clearly again!] On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Hello, > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:42:29AM -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > > So, to be clear, this i

Re: [RFC 0/2] Memoryless nodes and kworker

2014-07-18 Thread Nish Aravamudan
Hi Tejun, On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Tejun Heo wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 04:09:23PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > [Apologies for the large Cc list, but I believe we have the following > > interested parties: > > > > x86 (recently posted memoryless node support) > > ia64 (ex

Re: [RFC 1/2] workqueue: use the nearest NUMA node, not the local one

2014-07-18 Thread Nish Aravamudan
[ Apologies for replying from a different address, we have a service outage at work. ] On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Lai Jiangshan wrote: > > Hi, Thank you for your response! > I'm curious about what will it happen when alloc_pages_node(memoryless_node). alloc_pages_node() is only involved

Re: [PATCH] Fake NUMA emulation for PowerPC (Take 2)

2008-01-27 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 1/27/08, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-27 22:55:43]: > > > Balbir Singh writes: > > > > > Here's a better and more complete fix for the problem. Could you > > > please see if it works for you? I tested it on a real NUMA box and it > > > s

Re: crash in kmem_cache_init

2008-01-22 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 1/22/08, Olaf Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/postings/slab-20080122/partial-revert-slab-changes.patch > > .. Can you please check on your machine if it fixes your problem? > > It does not fix or change the nature of the crash

Re: crash in kmem_cache_init

2008-01-18 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 1/18/08, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you try this patch? > > Memoryless nodes: Set N_NORMAL_MEMORY for a node if we do not support > HIGHMEM > > It seems that we only scan through zones to set N_NORMAL_MEMORY only if > CONFIG_HIGHMEM and CONFIG_NUMA are set. We need to s

Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: add hugepagesz boot-time parameter

2007-11-28 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 11/28/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nish Aravamudan wrote: > > On 11/28/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:03:10 -0600 Jon Tollefson wrote: > >> > >>> This patch adds the hugepagesz boot-ti

Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: add hugepagesz boot-time parameter

2007-11-28 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 11/28/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:03:10 -0600 Jon Tollefson wrote: > > > This patch adds the hugepagesz boot-time parameter for ppc64 that lets > > you pick the size for your huge pages. The choices available are 64K > > and 16M. It defaults to 16M (pre

Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 -- powerpc rtas panic

2007-10-07 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 10/5/07, Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 05:01:47PM -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > > On 10/2/07, Tony Breeds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:30:16AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > > &

Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 -- powerpc rtas panic

2007-10-04 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 10/2/07, Tony Breeds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:30:16AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > I realise it'll make the patch bigger, but this doesn't seem like a > > particularly good name for the variable anymore. > > Sure, what about? > > Clarify when RTAS logging i