From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: booting with `mem=' on an Altix (or other NUMA machine)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:58:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4sur0l$lka82@fmsmga001.fm.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17467.2252.70039.423224@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
Luck, Tony wrote on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 10:32 AM
> >> that was discussed before:
> >> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ia64&m\x109718964113183&w=2
> >
> >I only see a patch there but no discussion.
>
> It doesn't look like this would solve the NUMA issue. Maybe you'd
> want a "mempernode=" boot parameter? But this would likely get complex
> in a hurry as various people add more options to meet their specific
> needs.
We probably should disable that boot option on numa system and rely on
memory hotplug to reduce physical memory per node?
- Ken
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-11 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-11 1:39 booting with `mem=' on an Altix (or other NUMA machine) Peter Chubb
2006-04-11 1:55 ` Grant Grundler
2006-04-11 17:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-04-11 17:31 ` Luck, Tony
2006-04-11 17:58 ` Chen, Kenneth W [this message]
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