lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2019]   [Apr]   [24]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] x86/Kconfig: deprecate DISCONTIGMEM support for 32-bit
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 04:24:12PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Mel Gorman says:
> 32-bit NUMA systems should be non-existent in practice. The last NUMA
> system I'm aware of that was both NUMA and 32-bit only died somewhere
> between 2004 and 2007. If someone is running a 64-bit capable system in
> 32-bit mode with NUMA, they really are just punishing themselves for fun.
>
> Mark DISCONTIGMEM broken for now and remove it in a couple of releases.
>
> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
> Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>

It was really Christoph that suggested marking it broken but I do agree
that it should be marked broken to see if anyone complains and if not,
there is no real reason to keep discontig available on x86.

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>

--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2019-04-24 16:21    [W:0.057 / U:0.128 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site