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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
	drepper@gmail.com, anatol.pomozov@gmail.com, jkosina@suse.cz,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, xemul@parallels.com,
	paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/base/node.c: export physical address range of given node (Re: NUMA node information for pages)
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:13:56 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1404111513040.17724@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53481724.8020304@intel.com>

On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Dave Hansen wrote:

> > So?  Who cares if there are non-addressable holes in part of the span?  
> > Ulrich, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems you're looking for just a 
> > address-to-nodeid mapping (or pfn-to-nodeid mapping) and aren't actually 
> > expecting that there are no holes in a node for things like acpi or I/O or 
> > reserved memory.
> ...
> > I think trying to represent holes and handling different memory models and 
> > hotplug in special ways is complete overkill.
> 
> This isn't just about memory hotplug or different memory models.  There
> are systems out there today, in production, that have layouts like this:
> 
> |------Node0-----|
>      |------Node1-----|
> 
> and this:
> 
> |------Node0-----|
>      |-Node1-|
> 

What additional information, in your opinion, can we export to assist 
userspace in making this determination that $address is on $nid?

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-11 22:14 UTC|newest]

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2014-04-11  1:35             ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-04-11  3:03             ` Naoya Horiguchi
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2014-04-11 11:00               ` David Rientjes
2014-04-11 11:43                 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-04-11 16:24                 ` Dave Hansen
2014-04-11 22:13                   ` David Rientjes [this message]
2014-04-11 22:53                     ` Dave Hansen

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