Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:42:39 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com,
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       mingo@elte.hu, greg@kroah.com, dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
       nish.aravamudan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [REPOST] mm: show node to memory section
 relationship with symlinks in sysfs
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On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:21:15 -0700
Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs
> 
> Add /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY symlinks for all
> the memory sections located on nodeX.  For example:
> /sys/devices/system/node/node1/memory135 -> ../../memory/memory135
> indicates that memory section 135 resides on node1.

I'm not seeing here a description of why the kernel needs this feature.
Why is it useful?  How will it be used?  What value does it have to
our users?


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