some possible NUMA K8 kdb enhancements

[John Blackwood]

Keith Owens wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks!
I hope it goes o.k.



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