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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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At some point in the past, jstultz wrote:
>> Just an FYI: I believe the x440 breaks this assumption. 
>> There are 2 chunks on the first CEC. The current discontig patch for it
>> has to drop the second chunk (anything over 3.5G on the first CEC) in
>> order to work w/ the existing code. However, that will probably need to
>> be addressed at some point, so be aware that this might affect you as
>> well. 

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:08:56PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> No, the NUMA code in the kernel doesn't support that anyway.
> You have to use zholes_size, and waste some struct pages,
> or config_nonlinear. Either way you get 1 memblk.

I thought zholes stuff freed the struct pages. Maybe that was done
by hand.


Bill
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