Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 2014 23:58:37 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC Patch V1 00/30] Enable memoryless node on x86 platforms |
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:51:06PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 01:20:51PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes: > > > > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:29:56AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > >> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 03:37:17PM +0800, Jiang Liu wrote: > > >> > Any comments are welcomed! > > >> > > >> Why would anybody _ever_ have a memoryless node? That's ridiculous. > > > > > > I'm with Peter here, why would this be a situation that we should even > > > support? Are there machines out there shipping like this? > > > > We've always had memory nodes. > > > > A classic case in the old days was a two socket system where someone > > didn't populate any DIMMs on the second socket. > > That's a obvious; don't do that then case. Its silly.
True. We should recommend that anyone running Linux will email you for approval of their configuration first.
> > There are other cases too. > > Are there any sane ones
Yes.
-Andi
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