WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-devel

[Xen-devel] Opteron server and NUMA

To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-devel] Opteron server and NUMA
From: Alexander Charbonnet <alexander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:59:56 -0500
Delivery-date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:57:26 +0000
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
List-help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
User-agent: KMail/1.8.1
Hi all,

I've just gotten a new dual dual-core box at work, and am experimenting with 
Xen 3.0 on it.  I've found that I can compile SMP just fine, and it sees all 
four processors, but when I add K8 NUMA, the compile breaks.

I've benchmarked tasks taking 50-80% longer than native, and I'm pretty sure 
it's because the kernel doesn't know that different processors are closer to 
different areas of memory.

Y'all are probably working on it, but I wanted to make sure you were aware 
that it's broken.  This box doesn't need to go live for a while yet, so if 
you need me to try anything out, I'd be glad to.

Thanks for all your work!

Alex

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel