Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: x86 patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24 | From | Lee Schermerhorn <> | Date | Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:17:45 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 16:36 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 00:18:09 -0700 > Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > > > > > How come? Memoryless node can and do occur in real-world machines. Kernel > > > > should support that? > > > > > > But a node is just defined by its memory? > > > > Don't think so. A node is a lump of circuitry which can have zero or more > > CPUs, IO and memory. > > > > It may initially have been conceived as a memory-only concept in the Linux > > kernel, but that doesn't fully map onto reality (does it?) > > > > There was a real-world need for this, I think from the Fujitsu guys. That > > should be spelled out in the changelog but isn't. > > Yes, Fujitsu and HP guys really need this memory-less-node support.
Agreed!
Lee
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