Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:24:55 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/2] enables booting a NUMA system where some nodes have no memory |
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Christian Krafft wrote:
> When booting a NUMA system with nodes that have no memory (eg by limiting memory), > bootmem_alloc_core tried to find pages in an uninitialized bootmem_map.
Why should we support nodes with no memory? If a node has no memory then its processors and other resources need to be attached to the nearest node with memory.
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