Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:07:36 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86: Reduce memory and intra-node effects with large count NR_CPUs |
| |
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Oh, just while I remember it also, something funny is that MAX_NUMNODES > can be bigger than NR_CPUS on x86. I guess one can have CPUless nodes, > but wouldn't it make sense to have an upper bound of NR_CPUS by default?
There are special configurations that some customers want which involves huge amounts of memory and just a few processors. In that case the number of nodes becomes larger than the number of processors.
| |