From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:24:55 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] enables booting a NUMA system where some nodes have no memory In-Reply-To: <20061115193437.25cdc371@localhost> Message-ID: References: <20061115193049.3457b44c@localhost> <20061115193437.25cdc371@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christian Krafft Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Christian Krafft wrote: > When booting a NUMA system with nodes that have no memory (eg by limiting memory), > bootmem_alloc_core tried to find pages in an uninitialized bootmem_map. Why should we support nodes with no memory? If a node has no memory then its processors and other resources need to be attached to the nearest node with memory. AFAICT The primary role of a node is to manage memory. -- 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