Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:46:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>, Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] enables booting a NUMA system where some nodes have
 no memory
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> What about SMP Opteron boards that have RAM slots for each CPU?
> With two (or more) CPU's and only memory slots populated for one of
> them, wouldn't that count as multiple NUMA nodes but only one of them
> with memory?
> That would seem to be a pretty common thing that could happen.

I think so far we have handled these as two processors on one node.

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