Messages in this thread | | | From | Nikunj A Dadhania <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RESEND] powerpc/numa: initialize distance lookup table from drconf path | Date | Tue, 11 Aug 2015 15:25:17 +0530 |
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Hi Michael,
Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: > In some situations, a NUMA guest that supports > ibm,dynamic-memory-reconfiguration node will end up having flat NUMA > distances between nodes. This is because of two problems in the > current code. > > 1) Different representations of associativity lists. > > There is an assumption about the associativity list in > initialize_distance_lookup_table(). Associativity list has two forms: > > a) [cpu,memory]@x/ibm,associativity has following > format: > <N> <N integers> > > b) ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory/ibm,associativity-lookup-arrays > > <M> <N> <M associativity lists each having N integers> > M = the number of associativity lists > N = the number of entries per associativity list > > Fix initialize_distance_lookup_table() so that it does not assume > "case a". And update the caller to skip the length field before > sending the associativity list. > > 2) Distance table not getting updated from drconf path. > > Node distance table will not get initialized in certain cases as > ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory path does not initialize the > lookup table. > > Call initialize_distance_lookup_table() from drconf path with > appropriate associativity list. > > Reported-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Signed-off-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Have you pulled this?
Regards, Nikunj
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