Re: memory hotremove prototype, take 3

From: Jesse Barnes
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 14:01:46 EST


On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:29:53AM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> >> IIRC, memory is contiguous within a NUMA node. I think Goto-san will
> >> clarify this issue when his code gets ready. :-)
> >
> > Not on all systems. On sn2 we use ia64's virtual memmap to make memory
> > within a node appear contiguous, even though it may not be.
>
> Wasn't there a plan to get rid of that though? I forget what it was,
> probably using CONFIG_NONLINEAR too ... ?

I think config_nonliner would do the trick, but no one's done the work
yet :)

Jesse
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