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Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:20:51 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch V1 00/30] Enable memoryless node on x86 platforms

Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:29:56AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 03:37:17PM +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
>> > Any comments are welcomed!
>> 
>> Why would anybody _ever_ have a memoryless node? That's ridiculous.
>
> I'm with Peter here, why would this be a situation that we should even
> support?  Are there machines out there shipping like this?

We've always had memory nodes.

A classic case in the old days was a two socket system where someone
didn't populate any DIMMs on the second socket.

There are other cases too.

-Andi

-- 
ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
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