Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > I'll be darned. I never knew it was even possible to run x86 numa kernels
> > on non-numa boxen. I'd have tested about 1000000 of Christoph Lameter's
> > patches if someone had told me. Yes, it's useful.
>
> If you want to use it for that I would suggest to port the numa emulation
> code at least - two or four nodes tends to find more problems than a single
> node.
>
> But testing on a 64bit box - even with numa emulation - would be much
> better because on 32bit ZONE_NORMAL often is node 0 only and you won't
> get much numaness for kernel objects.
That's an excellent point - most developers who are likely to want to test
NUMA have x86_64 boxes and x86_64 has NUMA-emulation-on-SMP. I'd
semi-forgotten that it existed.
This rather weakens the reasons for retaining support for
NUMA-on-non-summit-x86. Ingo?
> > I guess the concern here is that we don't want people building these
> > frankenkernels and then sending us bug reports against them.
>
> Well it will still increase the bug numbers you care so much about.
Not really. If a bug affects something we don't care about (like this)
I'll just ignore it. I care about the number of busted machines out there,
not the bug counts...
> Another reason I don't like it is that it's ugly and reimplements
> parts of ACPI on its own for no reason.
So shouldn't such a patch remove that code rather than panicing?
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