[PATCH RESEND] powerpc/numa: initialize distance lookup table from drconf path
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Aug 18 13:18:58 AEST 2015
On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 15:25 +0530, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> > In some situations, a NUMA guest that supports
> > ibm,dynamic-memory-reconfiguration node will end up having flat NUMA
> > distances between nodes. This is because of two problems in the
> > current code.
> >
> > 1) Different representations of associativity lists.
> >
> > There is an assumption about the associativity list in
> > initialize_distance_lookup_table(). Associativity list has two forms:
> >
> > a) [cpu,memory]@x/ibm,associativity has following
> > format:
> > <N> <N integers>
> >
> > b) ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory/ibm,associativity-lookup-arrays
> >
> > <M> <N> <M associativity lists each having N integers>
> > M = the number of associativity lists
> > N = the number of entries per associativity list
> >
> > Fix initialize_distance_lookup_table() so that it does not assume
> > "case a". And update the caller to skip the length field before
> > sending the associativity list.
> >
> > 2) Distance table not getting updated from drconf path.
> >
> > Node distance table will not get initialized in certain cases as
> > ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory path does not initialize the
> > lookup table.
> >
> > Call initialize_distance_lookup_table() from drconf path with
> > appropriate associativity list.
> >
> > Reported-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
>
> Have you pulled this?
Nope.
Will add it now.
cheers
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