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Message-Id: <20071002163624.74534e7f.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:36:24 +0900
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
mpm@...enic.com, "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, apw@...dowen.org,
"Lee.Schermerhorn@...com" <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>
Subject: Re: x86 patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 00:18:09 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > > How come? Memoryless node can and do occur in real-world machines. Kernel
> > > should support that?
> >
> > But a node is just defined by its memory?
>
> Don't think so. A node is a lump of circuitry which can have zero or more
> CPUs, IO and memory.
>
> It may initially have been conceived as a memory-only concept in the Linux
> kernel, but that doesn't fully map onto reality (does it?)
>
> There was a real-world need for this, I think from the Fujitsu guys. That
> should be spelled out in the changelog but isn't.
Yes, Fujitsu and HP guys really need this memory-less-node support.
Thanks,
-Kame
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