Re: 2.5.65-preempt booting on 32way NUMAQ

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Sun, 6 Apr 2003 15:10:01 -0700


On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I presumed the audit was perpetual and/or ongoing.

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 05:50:36PM -0400, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> Martin says the NUMAQ per node stuff isn't preempt safe, might be worth
> looking there too.

The only scary bit is numa_node_id() in __alloc_pages(); this is fine
because it's speculative anyway.

There isn't much usage of numa_node_id() in the i386 arch code.

-- wli
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