From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:02:15 -0600 (MDT) From: Thunder from the hill Subject: Re: [patch] SImple Topology API v0.3 (1/2) In-Reply-To: <20020828192917.GC10487@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Pavel Machek Cc: Thunder from the hill , Matthew Dobson , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Martin Bligh , Andrea Arcangeli , Michael Hohnbaum , lse-tech List-ID: Hi, On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Because NUMA is subordinate to X86, and another technology named NUMA > > might appear? Nano-uplinked micro-array... No Ugliness Munched Archive? > > Whatever... > > NUMA means non-uniform memory access. At least IBM, AMD and SGI do > NUMA; and I guess anyone with 100+ nodes *has* numa machine. (BUt as > andrea already explained, CONFIG_NUMA is already taken for generic > NUMA support.) I'm aware of that. You didn't get my point, though. I was just suggesting that there might be other things called NUMA, so CONFIG_X86_NUMA may be just right. Thunder -- --./../...-/. -.--/---/..-/.-./..././.-../..-. .---/..-/.../- .- --/../-./..-/-/./--..-- ../.----./.-../.-.. --./../...-/. -.--/---/..- .- -/---/--/---/.-./.-./---/.--/.-.-.- --./.-/-.../.-./.././.-../.-.-.- -- 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/