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Message-Id: <20071002004324.be030b63.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 00:43:24 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> 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 16:36:24 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote: > 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. > For what reason, please? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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