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    SubjectRe: [2.6.20][PATCH] fix mempolicy error check on a system with memory-less-node
    On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:43:44 -0800
    Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

    > > > and to
    > > > accurately present the machine's topology to the user without us having to
    > > > go adding falsehoods like this?
    > >
    > > a node is a piece of memory. Without memory it doesn't make sense.
    >
    > Who said? I can pick up a piece of circuitry which has four CPUs and no
    > RAM, wave it about then stick it in a computer. The kernel is just wrong,
    > surely?
    >
    As far as I remember, this was the first e-mail which tells me that there are
    - cpu only node
    - device only node
    - memory only node
    during node-hot-plug discussion.

    http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/linux-ia64/0405/9679.html

    Thanks,
    -Kame

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