Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:43:17 +0800 | From | Américo Wang <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/2] x86: add numa=possible command line option |
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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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