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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 3/5] x86: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
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Hi Thomas,


On 7/15/19 11:43 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Hoan Tran OS wrote:
>
>> Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES as it's enabled
>> by default with NUMA.
>
> As I told you before this does not mention that the option is now enabled
> even for x86(32bit) configurations which did not enable it before and does
> not longer depend on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA.

Agreed, let me add it into this patch description.

>
> And there is still no rationale why this makes sense.
>

As we know about the memmap_init_zone() function, it is used to
initialize all pages. During initializing, early_pfn_in_nid() function
makes sure the page is in the same node id. Otherwise,
memmap_init_zone() only checks the page validity. It won't work with
node memory spans across the others.

The option CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES is only used to enable
early_pfn_in_nid() function.

It occurs during boot-time and won't affect the run-time performance.
And I saw the majority NUMA architectures enable this option by default
with NUMA.

Thanks and Regards
Hoan


> Thanks,
>
> tglx
>
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