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Subject: [PATCH 0/2] x86/numa_emulation: Introduce uniform split capability
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To:     mingo@kernel.org
Cc:     Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, x86@kernel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Date:   Sat, 26 May 2018 17:56:47 -0700
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The current numa emulation capabilities for splitting System RAM by a
fixed size or by a set number of nodes may result in some nodes being
larger than others. The implementation prioritizes establishing a
minimum usable memory size over satisfying the requested number of numa
nodes.
    
Introduce a uniform split capability that evenly partitions each
physical numa node into N emulated nodes. For example numa=fake=3U
creates 6 emulated nodes total on a system that has 2 physical nodes.

This capability is useful for debugging and evaluating platform
memory-side-cache capabilities as described by the ACPI HMAT (see
5.2.27.5 Memory Side Cache Information Structure in ACPI 6.2a)
 
See more details in patch2.

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Dan Williams (2):
      x86/numa_emulation: Fix emulated-to-physical node mapping
      x86/numa_emulation: Introduce uniform split capability


 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt |    4 +
 arch/x86/mm/numa_emulation.c              |   98 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)