Re: [PATCH] you have how many nodes??

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes) wrote:
>
> Needed this for booting on a 128 node system.
>
> -#define ZONE_SHIFT (BITS_PER_LONG - 8)
> +#define ZONE_SHIFT (BITS_PER_LONG - 10)

eeek, ia32 just lost another two page flags.

This stuff needs to be controlled by per-arch and per-subarch header files.

Instead of going backwards like this we'd like to actually free up _more_
bits in page->flags.  The worst (and controlling) case is on 32-bit NUMA:
eight nodes, three zones per node.  That's five bits, leaving us 27 page
flags.

So we'd need

	include/asm-foo/zonestuff.h:
	
	#define ARCH_MAX_NODES_SHIFT	3	/* Up to 8 nodes */
	#define ARCH_MAX_ZONES_SHIFT	2	/* Up to 4 zones per node */


and all the mm.h/mmzone.h constants use those two.


I think.  We could just say "dang numaq needs five bits", so:


	#if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
	#define ZONE_SHIFT 5
	#else
	#define ZONE_SHIFT 10
	#endif


Bit sleazy, but I think that would suffice.