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    SubjectRe: [patch 1/2] x86: add numa=possible command line option
    On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 01:46:07PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
    >On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Américo Wang wrote:
    >> Also, numa=possible= is not as clear as numa=max=, for me at least.
    >>
    >
    >I like name, but it requires that you know how many nodes that system
    >already has. In other words, numa=possible=4 allows you to specify that 4
    >additional nodes will be possible, but initially offline, for this or
    >other purposes. numa=max=4 would be no-op if the system actually had 4
    >nodes.
    >
    >I chose numa=possible over numa=additional because it is more clearly tied
    >to node_possible_map, which is the only thing it modifies.

    Okay, I thought "possible" means "max", but "possible" means "addtional" here.
    It's clear for me now.

    Thanks!

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