From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Grundler Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:55:35 +0000 Subject: Re: booting with `mem=' on an Altix (or other NUMA machine) Message-Id: <20060411015535.GB31869@esmail.cup.hp.com> List-Id: References: <17467.2252.70039.423224@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> In-Reply-To: <17467.2252.70039.423224@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:39:24AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: > > Looks like booting with mem=xxx doesn't work very well on a NUMA > machine ... one sees, `ernel panic - not syncing: pernode space for > node 1 could not be allocated!' > > It is intended that the mem= command line work? It would have to be > quite a bit more complex if so, to spread the memory across online nodes. that was discussed before: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ia64&m9718964113183&w=2 hth, grant