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From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fake NUMA emulation for PowerPC
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 15:55:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <975B5B2B-C1F3-4021-9AE2-8873FFE1BDEC@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4759BCA2.1020809@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


On Dec 7, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Balbir Singh wrote:

> Olof Johansson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:44:25AM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
>>
>>> Comments are as always welcome!
>>
>> Care to explain what this is useful for? (Not saying it's a stupid  
>> idea,
>> just wondering what the reason for doing it is).
>>
>
> In my case, I use it to test parts of my memory controller patches  
> on an
> emulated NUMA machine. I plan to use it to test out page migration
> across nodes.

Can you explain that further.  I'm still not clear on why this is  
useful.

- k

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-07 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-07 21:14 Balbir Singh
2007-12-07 21:28 ` Olof Johansson
2007-12-07 21:35   ` Balbir Singh
2007-12-07 21:55     ` Kumar Gala [this message]
2007-12-07 22:12       ` Balbir Singh
2007-12-07 22:15         ` Kumar Gala
2007-12-07 22:18           ` Balbir Singh
2007-12-07 23:10         ` David Rientjes
2007-12-08  4:22           ` Balbir Singh
2007-12-09 13:16             ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-09 13:20               ` Balbir Singh
2007-12-07 23:06   ` David Rientjes
2007-12-07 21:30 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-12-07 21:33   ` Dave Quigley
2007-12-07 21:35   ` Balbir Singh
2007-12-07 21:43     ` Balbir Singh
2007-12-07 21:58       ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-12-07 22:03         ` Balbir Singh
2007-12-07 22:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-12-07 22:22   ` Balbir Singh
2007-12-07 22:11 ` Nathan Lynch
2007-12-07 22:26   ` Balbir Singh
2007-12-07 23:11     ` David Rientjes
2007-12-08  4:32       ` Balbir Singh
2007-12-08  4:45         ` David Rientjes

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