From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:07:36 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86: Reduce memory and intra-node effects with large count NR_CPUs In-Reply-To: <200801161834.39746.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <20080113183453.973425000@sgi.com> <20080114101133.GA23238@elte.hu> <200801141230.56403.ak@suse.de> <200801161834.39746.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , travis@sgi.com, Andrew Morton , Jack Steiner , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Nick Piggin wrote: > Oh, just while I remember it also, something funny is that MAX_NUMNODES > can be bigger than NR_CPUS on x86. I guess one can have CPUless nodes, > but wouldn't it make sense to have an upper bound of NR_CPUS by default? There are special configurations that some customers want which involves huge amounts of memory and just a few processors. In that case the number of nodes becomes larger than the number of processors. -- 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