[PATCH] Fake NUMA emulation for PowerPC

[Pavel Machek]

On Sat 2007-12-08 09:52:06, Balbir Singh wrote:
> David Rientjes wrote:
> > On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Balbir Singh wrote:
> > 
> >> To be able to test the memory controller under NUMA, I use fake NUMA
> >> nodes. x86-64 has a similar feature, the code I have here is the
> >> simplest I could come up with for PowerPC.
> >>
> > 
> > Magnus Damm had patches from over a year ago that, I believe, made much of 
> > the x86_64 fake NUMA code generic so that it could be extended for 
> > architectures such as i386.  Perhaps he could resurrect those patches if 
> > there is wider interest in such a tool.
> 
> That would be a very interesting patch, but what I have here is the
> simplest patch and we could build on it incrementally. The interface is
> non-standard but it does amazing things for 59 lines of code change.

Well, maybe it is amazing, but having non-standard interface is also
wrong...

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