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SubjectRe: boot time node and memory limit options
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:28:10PM -0500, Robert Picco wrote:
> This patch supports three boot line options. mem_limit limits the
> amount of physical memory. node_mem_limit limits the amount of
> physical memory per node on a NUMA machine. nodes_limit reduces the
> number of NUMA nodes to the value specified. On a NUMA machine an
> eliminated node's CPU(s) are removed from the cpu_possible_map.
>
> The patch has been tested on an IA64 NUMA machine and uniprocessor X86
> machine.

I think this patch will be really useful. Matt and Martin, does it look
ok to you? Given that discontiguous support is pretty platform specific
right now, I thought it might be less code if it was done in arch/, but
a platform independent version is awfully nice...

Thanks,
Jesse
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