From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.227]) by e36.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l743INae020126 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 23:18:23 -0400 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.4) with ESMTP id l743INPe255602 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 21:18:23 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l743IMB2000620 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 21:18:23 -0600 Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 20:18:19 -0700 From: Nishanth Aravamudan Subject: Re: [patch 00/14] NUMA: Memoryless node support V3 Message-ID: <20070804031819.GD15714@us.ibm.com> References: <20070804030100.862311140@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070804030100.862311140@sgi.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, kxr@sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, Lee Schermerhorn , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Mel Gorman List-ID: On 03.08.2007 [20:01:00 -0700], Christoph Lameter wrote: > V4->V5 > - Split N_MEMORY into N_NORMAL_MEMORY and N_HIGH_MEMORY to support > 32 bit NUMA. > - Mel tested it on 32bit NUMA > - !NUMA Fixes > - Tested on SMP and UP. > > V3->V4 (by Lee) > - Add fixes and testing. > > V2->V3 > - Refresh patches (sigh) > - Add comments suggested by Kamezawa Hiroyuki > - Add signoff by Jes Sorensen > > V1->V2 > - Add a generic layer that allows the definition of additional node bitmaps > > This patchset is implementing additional node bitmaps that allow the system > to track nodes that are online without memory and nodes that have processors. > > Note that this patch is only the beginning. All code portions that assume that > an online node has memory must be changed to use either N_NORMAL_MEMORY or > N_HIGH_MEMORY. I believe Andrew should drop the 9 memoryless node patches he had picked up and take these instead. The NORMAL_MEMORY/HIGH_MEMORY distinction is critical for booting 32-bit NUMA. I've rebased my stack of hugetlb related patches on top of these and am testing now. Thanks, Nish -- Nishanth Aravamudan IBM Linux Technology Center -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org