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Re: [Xen-devel] numa=on broken

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] numa=on broken
From: Ryan Harper <ryanh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:46:20 -0500
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* Ryan Harper <ryanh@xxxxxxxxxx> [2007-03-30 13:36]:
> * Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2007-03-30 13:17]:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 30/3/07 19:08, "Ryan Harper" <ryanh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > >> So -- can we ensure that the node that owns low memory is node zero?
> > > 
> > > AFAIK, that is the case, look at the SRAT table:
> > > 
> > > (XEN) SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 0-a0000
> > > (XEN) SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 0-e0000000
> > > (XEN) SRAT: Node 1 PXM 1 100000000-200000000
> > 
> > What if you move end_boot_allocator() to just before 'early_boot = 0' in
> > arch/x86/setup.c?
> 
> Giving that a shot.  

Didn't work, just pushes the bubble back to allocating the array for
NODE0:

(XEN) SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 0-a0000
(XEN) SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 0-e0000000
(XEN) SRAT: Node 1 PXM 1 100000000-200000000
(XEN) NUMA: Using 32 for the hash shift.
(XEN) done with numa_initmem_init()
(XEN) attempting to xmalloc_array() avail for NODE0
(XEN) Cannot handle page request order 0!
(XEN) attempting to xmalloc() for heap for NODE0
(XEN) Cannot handle page request order 2!

That is, we are still dying in init_heap_pages(), but this time for
allocating avail[0] rather than avail[1].

-- 
Ryan Harper
Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
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