Re: [patch] increse MAX_NR_MEMBLKS to same as MAX_NUMNODES on NUMA

[Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>]

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin J Bligh <mbligh@aracnet.com> writes:

>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 06:24:52PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
>>> I think Martin is referring to the memblk_*line() functions and
>>> the fact that memblks are exported via sysfs to userspace.  That
>>> API hasn't proven very useful so far since it's really waiting for
>>> memory hot add/remove.  Of course, we'll still need structures to
>>> support that for the low level arch specific discontig code, so
>>> any patch that killed memblks in sysfs and elsewhere would have to
>>> take that into account...  (In particular, node_memblk[] is filled
>>> out by the ACPI SRAT parsing code and use for discontig init and
>>> physical->node id conversion.)
>>> 
>>> Jesse
>>  OK, that makes sense.

Martin> Could one of you test this patch for me? Probably just a build
Martin> would do fine.

Martin,

Tried it, no go! It conflicts with arch/ia64/mm/numa.c and
arch/ia64/mm,/discontig.c as Jack had suggested.

Cheers,
Jes