From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
clameter@sgi.com, GOTO <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG][PATCH] fix mempolcy's check on a system with memory-less-node take2
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 00:24:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070208002428.1b7aa485.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702080919.16879.ak@suse.de>
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:19:16 +0100 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> The reason we present nodes to user space is that we can tell the user
> where the memory is. You seem to try to promote it to some abstract entity
> beyond that, but that doesn't seem particularly fruitful to me. I think
> I prefer "down to earth" memory nodes.
Who said a node is all about memory?
A node is (often) a circuit board, with an edge connector, containing some,
all or even none of a) CPUs, b) memory and c) IO devices.
That is how a kernel should model and treat it, surely? That's reality.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-08 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-08 2:06 [BUG][PATCH] fix mempolcy's check on a system with memory-less-node take2 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-02-08 7:49 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-08 8:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-08 8:03 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-08 8:08 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-08 8:19 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-08 8:24 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-02-08 8:16 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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