From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:29:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add node 'states' sysfs class attribute - V2 In-Reply-To: <20070827181405.57a3d8fe.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <200708242228.l7OMS5fU017948@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <1188248528.5952.95.camel@localhost> <20070827170159.0a79529d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070827181405.57a3d8fe.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Lee Schermerhorn , linux-mm , mel@skynet.ie, y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com, Kamezawa Hiroyuki , Eric Whitney List-ID: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > online: 0-1, 3 > > really? with commas and spaces and minus signs and colons? ug, what next? > animated ascii art? This is sysfs, not procfs ;) The masks can get quite ugly to read if you have lots of nodes. F.e. with 1024 nodes you get a line that wraps around more than 10 times. > OK, well if the meminfo file is the only one in there which broke the > golden rule, I don't think we have sufficient excuse to break it again. > > $ cat /sys/devices/system/node/possible > 0-4 > $ > > I think a bitmap would be better, personally. > > That in fact makes "possible" unneeded, doesn't it? It would always be > all-ones? There could be the case that nodes 1-9 and 20-29 are possible but the ones in between are not available. -- 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