From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Donny Cooper" Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:24:08 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Kernel Resources & Allocation Order Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Do kernel-parameters (such as, mem=X and maxcpus=N) have an allocation order according to the physical system layout, or even follow any order at all? For example, if I boot with mem24M and maxcpus=2, will resources come from the low number DIMM and CPU slots. Or is SMP completely random, with no guarantee which resources are allocated. I am aware that you cannot choose which resources to use, but the documentation I have found on this subject is unclear. Thanks. ----------------------------------- Donny Cooper NEC Systems, Inc. Advanced Technical Computing Center dcooper@atcc.necsys.com www.necservers.com -----------------------------------