From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932339AbVKKERt (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:17:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932340AbVKKERt (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:17:49 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:46013 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932339AbVKKERs (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:17:48 -0500 From: Andi Kleen To: Magnus Damm Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/05] NUMA: Generic code Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:16:35 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pj@sgi.com References: <20051110090920.8083.54147.sendpatchset@cherry.local> <20051110090925.8083.45887.sendpatchset@cherry.local> In-Reply-To: <20051110090925.8083.45887.sendpatchset@cherry.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511110516.37980.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 10 November 2005 10:08, Magnus Damm wrote: > Generic CONFIG_NUMA_EMU code. > > This patch adds generic NUMA emulation code to the kernel. The code > provides the architectures with functions that calculate the size of > emulated nodes, together with configuration stuff such as Kconfig and > kernel command line code. IMHO making it generic and bloated like this is total overkill for this simple debugginghack. I think it is better to keep it simple and hiden it in a architecture specific dark corners, not expose it like this. I think the patch shouldn't be applied. -Andi