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From: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] enables booting a NUMA system where some nodes have no memory
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:28:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061116032835.GA25299@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611151754480.24793@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:57:27PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Jack Steiner wrote:
> 
> > I doubt that there is a demand for systems with memoryless nodes. However, if the
> > DIMM(s) on a node fails, I think the system may perform better
> > with the cpus on the node enabled than it will if they have to be
> > disabled.
> 
> Right now we do not have the capability to remove memory from a node while 
> the system is running.

I know. I'm refering to a DIMM that fails power-on diags or one
that is explicitly disabled from the system controller.

Clearly a reboot is required in both cases, but the end result is
a node with cpus and no memory. As I said earlier, the PROM (for several 
reasons) automatically the cpus on nodes w/o memory.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-16  3:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-15 18:30 [patch 0/2] fix bugs while booting on NUMA system where some nodes have no mem Christian Krafft
2006-11-15 18:32 ` [patch 1/2] fix call to alloc_bootmem after bootmem has been freed Christian Krafft
2006-11-21 16:55   ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-21 18:02     ` Christian Krafft
2006-11-21 18:26       ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-22  9:23         ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-11-15 18:34 ` [patch 2/2] enables booting a NUMA system where some nodes have no memory Christian Krafft
2006-11-15 21:24   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-15 21:58     ` Jack Steiner
2006-11-15 22:40       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-15 22:43         ` Martin Bligh
2006-11-15 22:52           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-16  0:54             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-11-16  0:57               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-16  1:17                 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-11-16 15:40                 ` Christian Krafft
2006-11-16 15:49                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-11-16 18:46                   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-16  2:01             ` Martin Bligh
2006-11-16  1:35         ` Jack Steiner
2006-11-16  1:57           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-16  2:09             ` Martin Bligh
2006-11-16  2:35               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-16  3:28             ` Jack Steiner [this message]
2006-11-15 22:05     ` Martin Bligh
2006-11-15 22:41       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-15 22:46         ` Martin Bligh
2006-11-15 22:51           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-16  0:59             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-11-16  1:22               ` Yasunori Goto
2006-11-16  0:26         ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-11-16  0:45           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-16 13:08             ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-11-16  0:44         ` Jesper Juhl
2006-11-16  0:46           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-16 15:21         ` Lee Schermerhorn

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