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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:56:03 +0100 From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> To: Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org> Cc: Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Purpose of numa_node? Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org> writes: > > The in-kernel use looks perfectly sane in that regard, though I'm not > sure what the point of exporting this as a RO attribute to userspace is. > Presumably someone has a tool somewhere that cares about this. The idea was to allow e.g. NUMA aware irqbalanced that directs the interrupts on the same node as the device is connected to. Don't know if it was ever actually implemented. -Andi -- 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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