Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264913AbUF1L65 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 07:58:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264916AbUF1L65 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 07:58:57 -0400 Received: from zcamail03.zca.compaq.com ([161.114.32.103]:12807 "EHLO zcamail03.zca.compaq.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264913AbUF1L6z (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2004 07:58:55 -0400 Message-ID: <40E00935.6040405@hp.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:04:05 -0400 From: Robert Picco User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031030 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: Anton Blanchard , Ingo Oeser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au Subject: Re: [PATCH] __alloc_bootmem_node should not panic when it fails References: <20040627052747.GG23589@krispykreme> <200406270827.28310.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> <20040627222803.GH23589@krispykreme> <20040628062912.GA4391@taniwha.stupidest.org> In-Reply-To: <20040628062912.GA4391@taniwha.stupidest.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 796 Lines: 31 Chris Wedgwood wrote: >On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 08:28:03AM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > >>Unfortunately nodes without memory is relatively common on ppc64, >>and I believe x86-64. From a ppc64 perspective Im fine with best >>effort, perhaps someone from the heavily NUMA camp (ia64?) could >>comment. >> >> > >Does anyone make ia64 NUMA hardware where you can have memory-less >nodes? > > > --cw > > > HP ships IA64 NUMA hardware where the default memory configuration is memory-less. There are N-1 cpu-nodes and 1 memory node. Bob - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/