From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 941B46B004A for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:55:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wwj40 with SMTP id 40so3220834wwj.26 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:55:02 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [Patch] mm: make CONFIG_NUMA depend on CONFIG_SYSFS From: Eric Dumazet In-Reply-To: <4E25221F.6060605@redhat.com> References: <1310987909-3129-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com> <20110718135243.GA5349@suse.de> <4E25221F.6060605@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:54:58 +0200 Message-ID: <1311058498.16961.15.camel@edumazet-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Cong Wang Cc: Mel Gorman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Andi Kleen , linux-mm@kvack.org Le mardi 19 juillet 2011 A 14:20 +0800, Cong Wang a A(C)crit : > Hmm, since we don't have to enable SYSFS for NUMA, how about > make a new Kconfig for drivers/base/node.c? I.e., CONFIG_NUMA_SYSFS, > like patch below. > I dont quite understand this patch, nor the idea behind it. You can have a NUMA kernel (for appropriate percpu locality or whatever kernel data), and yet user land processes unable to use numactl if SYSFS is not enabled. I dont see a problem. Please just fix the link problem ? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org