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    [POWERPC] Fake NUMA emulation for PowerPC · 1daa6d08
    Balbir Singh authored
    
    
    Here's a dumb simple implementation of fake NUMA nodes for PowerPC.
    Fake NUMA nodes can be specified using the following command line
    option
    
    numa=fake=<node range>
    
    node range is of the format <range1>,<range2>,...<rangeN>
    
    Each of the rangeX parameters is passed using memparse().  I find the
    patch useful for fake NUMA emulation on my simple PowerPC machine.
    I've tested it on a numa box with the following arguments
    
    numa=fake=512M
    numa=fake=512M,768M
    numa=fake=256M,512M mem=512M
    numa=fake=1G mem=768M
    numa=fake=
    without any numa= argument
    
    The other side-effect introduced by this patch is that; in the case
    where we don't have NUMA information, we now set a node online after
    adding each LMB.  This node could very well be node 0, but in the case
    that we enable fake NUMA nodes, when we cross node boundaries, we need
    to set the new node online.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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