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SubjectRe: [Patch] mm: make CONFIG_NUMA depend on CONFIG_SYSFS
于 2011年07月19日 14:54, Eric Dumazet 写道:
> Le mardi 19 juillet 2011 à 14:20 +0800, Cong Wang a écrit :
>
>> Hmm, since we don't have to enable SYSFS for NUMA, how about
>> make a new Kconfig for drivers/base/node.c? I.e., CONFIG_NUMA_SYSFS,
>> like patch below.
>>
>
> I dont quite understand this patch, nor the idea behind it.
>
> You can have a NUMA kernel (for appropriate percpu locality or whatever
> kernel data), and yet user land processes unable to use numactl if SYSFS
> is not enabled. I dont see a problem.
>

Both Pekka and Mel pointed out that it makes sense to have NUMA kernel
without SYSFS, this means sysfs interface is not a must for NUMA kernel.
Thus, I think it makes sense to separate the numa sysfs code out.
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