Re: + bootmem-node-setup-agnostic-free_bootmem.patch added to -mm tree

["Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> >>  > 2. intel cross node box: node0: 0g-2g, 4g-6g, node1: 2g-4g, 6g-8g. i
>  >>  > don't think they have two bdata struct for every node.
>  >>
>  >>  How do the bdata structures represent this setup right now?  Are you
>  >>  sure that there is not a node descriptor for every contiguous region?
>  >
>  > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/25/233
>  >
>  > Subject       [patch] srat, x86_64: Add support for nodes spanning other nodes
>  >
>  > For example, If the physical address layout on a two node system with 8 GB
>  > memory is something like:
>  > node 0: 0-2GB, 4-6GB
>  > node 1: 2-4GB, 6-8GB
>  >
>  > Current kernels fail to boot/detect this NUMA topology.
>  >
>  > ACPI SRAT tables can expose such a topology which needs to be supported.
>  >
>  > Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
>
>  As I understood the code (more guessing than understanding), it breaks
>  down these physical nodes into contiguous logical memory blocks which
>  then get represented by having a node descriptor for each of them.  Can
>  you confirm that?

Not sure, on x86_64 one node should have one bdata only.
execpt suresh update that to make one node have two bdata.

YH