Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:43:29 -0800 | Subject | Re: boot time node and memory limit options | From | (Jesse Barnes) |
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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...
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