linux-kernel - Re: [RFC Patch V1 00/30] Enable memoryless node on x86 platforms

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1407120039120.17906@twin.jikos.cz>
Date:	Sat, 12 Jul 2014 00:40:40 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
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

On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Greg KH 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?

I am pretty sure I've seen ppc64 machine with memoryless NUMA node.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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