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Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] powerpc:numa Add serial nid support

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On 27.09.2015 [23:59:08 +0530], Raghavendra K T wrote:
> Problem description:
> Powerpc has sparse node numbering, i.e. on a 4 node system nodes are
> numbered (possibly) as 0,1,16,17. At a lower level, we map the chipid
> got from device tree is naturally mapped (directly) to nid.

chipid is a OPAL concept, I believe, and not documented in PAPR... How
does this work under PowerVM?

> Potential side effect of that is:
> 
> 1) There are several places in kernel that assumes serial node numbering.
> and memory allocations assume that all the nodes from 0-(highest nid)
> exist inturn ending up allocating memory for the nodes that does not exist.
> 
> 2) For virtualization use cases (such as qemu, libvirt, openstack), mapping
> sparse nid of the host system to contiguous nids of guest (numa affinity,
> placement) could be a challenge.
> 
> Possible Solutions:
> 1) Handling the memory allocations is kernel case by case: Though in some
> cases it is easy to achieve, some cases may be intrusive/not trivial. 
> at the end it does not handle side effect (2) above.
> 
> 2) Map the sparse chipid got from device tree to a serial nid at kernel
> level (The idea proposed in this series).
> Pro: It is more natural to handle at kernel level than at lower (OPAL) layer.
> con: The chipid is in device tree no longer the same as nid in kernel

Is there any debugging/logging? Looks like not -- so how does a sysadmin
map from firmware-provided values to the Linux values? That's going to
make debugging of large systems (PowerVM or otherwise) less than
pleasant, it seems? Possibly you could put something in sysfs?

-Nish

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[PATCH RFC  0/5] powerpc:numa Add serial nid support Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-27 20:30 +0200
  [PATCH RFC  5/5] powerpc:numa Use chipid to nid mapping to get serial numa node ids Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-27 20:30 +0200
  [PATCH RFC  4/5] powerpc:numa Add helper functions to maintain chipid to nid mapping Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-27 20:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH RFC  4/5] powerpc:numa Add helper functions to maintain  chipid to nid mapping Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-28 19:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH RFC  4/5] powerpc:numa Add helper functions to maintain  chipid to nid mapping Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-29 21:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] powerpc:numa Add serial nid support Denis Kirjanov <kda@linux-powerpc.org> - 2015-09-28 13:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] powerpc:numa Add serial nid support Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-28 19:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] powerpc:numa Add serial nid support Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-29 20:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] powerpc:numa Add serial nid support Denis Kirjanov <kda@linux-powerpc.org> - 2015-09-29 21:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] powerpc:numa Add serial nid support Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-30 08:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH RFC  0/5] powerpc:numa Add serial nid support Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-28 19:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH RFC  0/5] powerpc:numa Add serial nid support Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-29 21:20 +0200

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