Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC Patch V1 00/30] Enable memoryless node on x86 platforms | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:20:51 -0700 |
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Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:29:56AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 03:37:17PM +0800, Jiang Liu wrote: >> > Any comments are welcomed! >> >> Why would anybody _ever_ have a memoryless node? That's ridiculous. > > I'm with Peter here, why would this be a situation that we should even > support? Are there machines out there shipping like this?
We've always had memory nodes.
A classic case in the old days was a two socket system where someone didn't populate any DIMMs on the second socket.
There are other cases too.
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
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