From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com, mel@csn.ul.ie,
lcm@us.ibm.com, garyhade@us.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu,
greg@kroah.com, dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
nish.aravamudan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [REPOST] mm: show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:42:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081010124239.f92b5568.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081009192115.GB8793@us.ibm.com>
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:21:15 -0700
Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs
>
> Add /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY symlinks for all
> the memory sections located on nodeX. For example:
> /sys/devices/system/node/node1/memory135 -> ../../memory/memory135
> indicates that memory section 135 resides on node1.
I'm not seeing here a description of why the kernel needs this feature.
Why is it useful? How will it be used? What value does it have to
our users?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-10 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-09 19:21 [PATCH 1/2] [REPOST] mm: show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs Gary Hade
2008-10-10 10:55 ` Yasunori Goto
2008-10-10 19:42 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-10-10 21:33 ` Gary Hade
2008-10-10 21:59 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-10 23:18 ` Gary Hade
2008-10-10 23:32 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-13 16:34 ` Gary Hade
2008-10-13 16:40 ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-14 11:54 ` Yasunori Goto
2008-10-14 21:06 ` Gary Hade
2008-10-15 10:37 ` Yasunori Goto
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