Thread (18 messages) 18 messages, 5 authors, 2008-02-01

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

From: Balbir Singh <hidden>
Date: 2008-01-26 07:13:54
Also in: lkml

* Michael Ellerman [off-list ref] [2008-01-18 16:44:58]:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
This fixes it, although I'm a little worried about some of the
removals/movings of node_set_online() in the patch.

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
index 1666e7d..dcedc26 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ static int __cpuinit fake_numa_create_new_node(unsigned long end_pfn,
 	static unsigned int fake_nid = 0;
 	static unsigned long long curr_boundary = 0;
 
-	*nid = fake_nid;
 	if (!p)
 		return 0;
 
@@ -60,6 +59,7 @@ static int __cpuinit fake_numa_create_new_node(unsigned long end_pfn,
 	if (mem < curr_boundary)
 		return 0;
 
+	*nid = fake_nid;
 	curr_boundary = mem;
 
 	if ((end_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) > mem) {
Hi, Michael,

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
seemed to work fine there.

Description
-----------

This patch provides a fix for the problem found by
Michael Ellerman [off-list ref] while using fake NUMA nodes
on a cell box. The code modifies node id iff (as in if and only if)
fake NUMA nodes are created.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <redacted>
---

 arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c~fix-fake-numa-nid-on-numa arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
--- linux-2.6.24-rc8/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c~fix-fake-numa-nid-on-numa	2008-01-26 12:20:29.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc8-balbir/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c	2008-01-26 12:27:53.000000000 +0530
@@ -49,7 +49,12 @@ static int __cpuinit fake_numa_create_ne
 	static unsigned int fake_nid = 0;
 	static unsigned long long curr_boundary = 0;
 
-	*nid = fake_nid;
+	/*
+	 * If we did enable fake nodes and cross a node,
+	 * remember the last node and start from there.
+	 */
+	if (fake_nid)
+		*nid = fake_nid;
 	if (!p)
 		return 0;
 
_

-- 
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL
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