Re: [PATCH] __alloc_bootmem_node should not panic when it fails

From: Robert Picco
Date: Mon Jun 28 2004 - 07:01:27 EST


Chris Wedgwood wrote:

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 08:28:03AM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:



Unfortunately nodes without memory is relatively common on ppc64,
and I believe x86-64. From a ppc64 perspective Im fine with best
effort, perhaps someone from the heavily NUMA camp (ia64?) could
comment.



Does anyone make ia64 NUMA hardware where you can have memory-less
nodes?


--cw



HP ships IA64 NUMA hardware where the default memory configuration is memory-less. There are N-1 cpu-nodes and 1 memory node.

Bob

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