Re: Enabling NUMA in BIOS stop booting FreeBSD

From: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw_at_digiware.nl>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 21:37:40 +0100
On 23-12-2016 20:30, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 08:16:39PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> 
>> On 23-12-2016 14:26, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 09:26:02PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 16-12-2016 00:57, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>>>> heh, an updated BIOS that solves the problem will solve the problem. :)
>>>>>
>>>>> I think you have enough information to provide to supermicro. Ie,
>>>>> "SMAP says X, when physical memory pages at addresses X are accessed,
>>>>> they don't behave like memory, maybe something is wrong".
>>>>>
>>>>> All I can think of is some hack to add a blacklist for that region so
>>>>> you can boot the unit. But it makes me wonder what else is going on.
>>>>
>>>> I have an X10DRL-iT with 256Gb and 2* 2630V4 available for testing until
>>>> begin January. Started it on 11-RELEASE and upgraded to 12-CURRENT of
>>>> 20-12-2016.
>>>> Boots just fine, and seems to run OKE.
>>>>
>>>> If anything useful to test, just let me know.
>>>
>>> For touch issuse you must enable in BIOS both NUMA and Memory
>>> Interleave below 4G.
>>
>> Numa was already on, but I cannot find the Memory Interleave option.
> 
> for X10DRi:
> 
> Advanced/Chipset Config/North Bridge/Memory Config/Socket Interleave below 4G

The only thing that could be this is:
	a7 mode,
but that is already enabled.
This speaks about a bit higher memory bandwidth.

On the PCIe page ther is something like:
	above 4G encoding
but that will probably not be it.

--WjW
Received on Fri Dec 23 2016 - 19:37:51 UTC

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