Re: [PATCH 07/07] i386: numa emulation on pc

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On 10/4/05, Dave Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 18:59 +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_EMU
> > > ...
> > > > +#endif
> > >
> > > Ewwwwww :)  No real need to put new function in a big #ifdef like that.
> > > Can you just create a new file for NUMA emulation?
> >
> > Hehe, what is this, a beauty contest? =) I agree, but I guess the
> > reason for this code to be here is that a similar arrangement is done
> > by x86_64...
>
> If that's really the case, can they _actually_ share code?  Maybe we can
> do this NUMA emulation thing in non-arch code.  Just guessing...

I'd like to avoid duplication as much as you, but at a quick glance
the x86_64 and i386 architecture looked pretty different. But I will
see what I can do.

> > I will create a new file. Is arch/i386/mm/numa_emu.c good?
>
> > But first, you have written lots and lots of patches, and I am
> > confused. Could you please tell me on which patches I should base my
> > code to make things as easy as possible?
>
> This is the staging ground for my memory hotplug work.  But, it contains
> all of my work on other stuff, too.  If you build on top of this, it
> would be great:
>
> http://sr71.net/patches/2.6.14/2.6.14-rc2-git8-mhp1/

I will build on top of that then.

Thanks,

/ magnus
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