some possible NUMA K8 kdb enhancements

Keith Owens kaos at sgi.com
Thu May 5 16:46:38 PDT 2005


On Thu, 05 May 2005 07:41:51 -0400, 
John Blackwood <john.blackwood at ccur.com> wrote:
>Oops... I forgot to copy kdb at oss.sgi.com with my email reply to Keith:
>
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>
>Keith Owens wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 04 May 2005 09:44:16 -0400, John Blackwood 
><john.blackwood at ccur.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I have a few enhancement suggestions to kdb mainly for adding in some
> >> additional support for NUMA_K8 kernels.  These changes seem to working
> >> fine for us, and we hoped that you might be interested in making use of
> >> some or all of the changes shown below.
>
>
>Hi Keith,
>
>Thanks for your reply.
>
> > At a quick glance, the changes look reasonable.  From the context, I
> > assume that the code was tested on x86_64?
>
>
>Yes.
>
> > Have you tried the patches on other NUMA boxes, like ia64?
>
>
>I'm afraid not.  I only have access to opteron x86_64 boxes.

That's fine, I will test it on ia64 this weekend.

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