Re: [patch 00/14] NUMA: Memoryless node support V3

[Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>]

On 03.08.2007 [20:01:00 -0700], Christoph Lameter wrote:
> V4->V5
> - Split N_MEMORY into N_NORMAL_MEMORY and N_HIGH_MEMORY to support
>   32 bit NUMA.
> - Mel tested it on 32bit NUMA
> - !NUMA Fixes
> - Tested on SMP and UP.
> 
> V3->V4 (by Lee)
> - Add fixes and testing.
> 
> V2->V3
> - Refresh patches (sigh)
> - Add comments suggested by Kamezawa Hiroyuki
> - Add signoff by Jes Sorensen
> 
> V1->V2
> - Add a generic layer that allows the definition of additional node bitmaps
> 
> This patchset is implementing additional node bitmaps that allow the system
> to track nodes that are online without memory and nodes that have processors.
> 
> Note that this patch is only the beginning. All code portions that assume that
> an online node has memory must be changed to use either N_NORMAL_MEMORY or
> N_HIGH_MEMORY.

I believe Andrew should drop the 9 memoryless node patches he had picked
up and take these instead. The NORMAL_MEMORY/HIGH_MEMORY distinction is
critical for booting 32-bit NUMA. I've rebased my stack of hugetlb
related patches on top of these and am testing now.

Thanks,
Nish

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Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center

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