Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755547AbXJBHoz (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 03:44:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751592AbXJBHos (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 03:44:48 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:39774 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751455AbXJBHor (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 03:44:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 00:43:24 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com, "Huang, Ying" , Thomas Gleixner , Christoph Lameter , apw@shadowen.org, "Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com" Subject: Re: x86 patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24 Message-Id: <20071002004324.be030b63.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20071002163624.74534e7f.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20071001142222.fcaa8d57.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071001233225.88c67e8b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071002070110.GA30490@one.firstfloor.org> <20071002001809.0a814d0b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071002163624.74534e7f.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1097 Lines: 28 On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:36:24 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 00:18:09 -0700 > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > How come? Memoryless node can and do occur in real-world machines. Kernel > > > > should support that? > > > > > > But a node is just defined by its memory? > > > > Don't think so. A node is a lump of circuitry which can have zero or more > > CPUs, IO and memory. > > > > It may initially have been conceived as a memory-only concept in the Linux > > kernel, but that doesn't fully map onto reality (does it?) > > > > There was a real-world need for this, I think from the Fujitsu guys. That > > should be spelled out in the changelog but isn't. > > Yes, Fujitsu and HP guys really need this memory-less-node support. > For what reason, please? - 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/