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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: add node physical memory range to sysfs
On 12/12/2012 06:03 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 17:48 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> But if we went and did it per-DIMM (showing which physical addresses and
>> NUMA nodes a DIMM maps to), wouldn't that be redundant with this
>> proposed interface?
>
> If DIMMs overlap between nodes, then we wouldn't have an exact range for
> a node in question. Having both approaches would complement each other.

How is that possible? If NUMA nodes are defined by distances from CPUs
to memory, how could a DIMM have more than a single distance to any
given CPU?

>> How do you plan to use this in practice, btw?
>
> It started because I needed to recognize the address of a node to remove
> it from the e820 mappings and have the system "ignore" the node's
> memory.

Actually, now that I think about it, can you check in the
/sys/devices/system/ directories for memory and nodes? We have linkages
there for each memory section to every NUMA node, and you can also
derive the physical address from the phys_index in each section. That
should allow you to work out physical addresses for a given node.



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