Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755398AbXJBRSF (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:18:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754820AbXJBRRq (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:17:46 -0400 Received: from atlrel8.hp.com ([156.153.255.206]:36592 "EHLO atlrel8.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754396AbXJBRRp (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:17:45 -0400 Subject: Re: x86 patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24 From: Lee Schermerhorn To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com, "Huang, Ying" , Thomas Gleixner , Christoph Lameter , apw@shadowen.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> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: HP/OSLO Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:17:45 -0400 Message-Id: <1191345465.5026.0.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1050 Lines: 29 On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 16:36 +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. Agreed! Lee - 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/