From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:36:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] NUMA: Memoryless node support V4 In-Reply-To: <200707310035.09046.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20070727194316.18614.36380.sendpatchset@localhost> <20070730211937.GD5668@us.ibm.com> <200707310035.09046.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan , Lee Schermerhorn , linux-mm@kvack.org, pj@sgi.com, kxr@sgi.com, Mel Gorman , akpm@linux-foundation.org, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , apw@shadowen.org List-ID: On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Hmmm... yes trouble with NUMAQ is that the nodes only have HIGHMEM > > but no NORMAL memory. The memory is not available to the slab allocator > > (needs ZONE_NORMAL memory) and we cannot fall back anymore. We may need > > something like N_SLAB that defines the allowed nodes for the slab > > allocators. Sigh. > > Or just disable 32bit NUMA. The arch/i386 numa code is beyond ugly anyways > and I don't think it ever worked particularly well. So we would no longer support NUMAQ? Is that possible? -- 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