Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:11:49 -0800 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] increse MAX_NR_MEMBLKS to same as MAX_NUMNODES on NUMA |
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>>>>>> "Martin" == Martin J Bligh <mbligh@aracnet.com> writes: > >>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 06:24:52PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: >>>> I think Martin is referring to the memblk_*line() functions and >>>> the fact that memblks are exported via sysfs to userspace. That >>>> API hasn't proven very useful so far since it's really waiting for >>>> memory hot add/remove. Of course, we'll still need structures to >>>> support that for the low level arch specific discontig code, so >>>> any patch that killed memblks in sysfs and elsewhere would have to >>>> take that into account... (In particular, node_memblk[] is filled >>>> out by the ACPI SRAT parsing code and use for discontig init and >>>> physical->node id conversion.) >>>> >>>> Jesse >>> OK, that makes sense. > > Martin> Could one of you test this patch for me? Probably just a build > Martin> would do fine. > > Martin, > > Tried it, no go! It conflicts with arch/ia64/mm/numa.c and > arch/ia64/mm,/discontig.c as Jack had suggested.
Can you send me the build output? It shouldn't conflict ... there are two separate uses of the term "memblk" by the looks of it.
M.
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