linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/numa: instance all parsed numa node

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Date:   Mon, 8 Jul 2019 20:26:08 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
cc:     Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pavel.tatashin@...rosoft.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, Qian Cai <cai@....pw>,
        Barret Rhoden <brho@...gle.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/numa: instance all parsed numa node

On Mon, 8 Jul 2019, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Jul 8, 2019, at 3:35 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> > Anything less than the actual number of present CPUs is problematic except
> > you use the 'let's hope nothing happens' approach. We could add an option
> > to stop the bringup at the early online state similar to what we do for
> > 'nosmt'.
> > 
> How about we change nr_cpus to do that instead so we never have to have
> this conversation again?

Actually not the worst idea. We have all the infrastructure already.

Thanks,

	tglx