Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751982AbXAQDO2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:14:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751987AbXAQDO2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:14:28 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:58487 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751982AbXAQDO2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:14:28 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:14:12 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter To: Andi Kleen cc: akpm@osdl.org, Paul Menage , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin , linux-mm@kvack.org, Paul Jackson , Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [RFC 1/8] Convert higest_possible_node_id() into nr_node_ids In-Reply-To: <200701170905.17234.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20070116054743.15358.77287.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <20070116054748.15358.31856.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <200701170905.17234.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 757 Lines: 18 On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 16:47, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > I think having the ability to determine the maximum amount of nodes in > > a system at runtime is useful but then we should name this entry > > correspondingly and also only calculate the value once on bootup. > > Are you sure this is even possible in general on systems with node > hotplug? The firmware might not pass a maximum limit. In that case the node possible map must include all nodes right? - 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/