Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 8 Feb 2007 00:24:28 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [BUG][PATCH] fix mempolcy's check on a system with memory-less-node take2 |
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:19:16 +0100 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> The reason we present nodes to user space is that we can tell the user > where the memory is. You seem to try to promote it to some abstract entity > beyond that, but that doesn't seem particularly fruitful to me. I think > I prefer "down to earth" memory nodes.
Who said a node is all about memory?
A node is (often) a circuit board, with an edge connector, containing some, all or even none of a) CPUs, b) memory and c) IO devices.
That is how a kernel should model and treat it, surely? That's reality. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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