Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:34:46 -0800
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Robert Picco <Robert.Picco@hp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Robert.Picco@hp.com, colpatch@us.ibm.com,
       mbligh@aracnet.com
Subject: Re: boot time node and memory limit options
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On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:07:44 -0500 Robert Picco wrote:

| This patch supports three boot line options.  mem_limit limits the amount of physical memory.
| node_mem_limit limits the amount of physical memory per node on a NUMA machine.  nodes_limit
| reduces the number of NUMA nodes to the value specified.  On a NUMA machine an eliminated node's 
| CPU(s) are removed from the cpu_possible_map.  
| 
| The patch has been tested on an IA64 NUMA machine and uniprocessor X86 machine.

These kernel boot ("command line") parameters need to be documented
in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, please:

| +__setup("mem_limit", mem_setup);
| +__setup("node_mem_limit", node_mem_setup);
| +__setup("nodes_limit", nodes_setup);

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~Randy
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