From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:14:12 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC 1/8] Convert higest_possible_node_id() into nr_node_ids In-Reply-To: <200701170905.17234.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20070116054743.15358.77287.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <20070116054748.15358.31856.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <200701170905.17234.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Paul Menage , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin , linux-mm@kvack.org, Paul Jackson , Dave Chinner List-ID: On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 16:47, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > I think having the ability to determine the maximum amount of nodes in > > a system at runtime is useful but then we should name this entry > > correspondingly and also only calculate the value once on bootup. > > Are you sure this is even possible in general on systems with node > hotplug? The firmware might not pass a maximum limit. In that case the node possible map must include all nodes right? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org