Re: x86 patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 00:18:09 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > How come?  Memoryless node can and do occur in real-world machines.  Kernel
> > > should support that?
> > 
> > But a node is just defined by its memory? 
> 
> Don't think so.  A node is a lump of circuitry which can have zero or more
> CPUs, IO and memory.
> 
> It may initially have been conceived as a memory-only concept in the Linux
> kernel, but that doesn't fully map onto reality (does it?)
> 
> There was a real-world need for this, I think from the Fujitsu guys.  That
> should be spelled out in the changelog but isn't.

Yes, Fujitsu and HP guys really need this memory-less-node support. 

Thanks,
-Kame

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