Re: DISCONTIGMEM is deprecated

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Wed Apr 24 2019 - 07:34:07 EST


On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 12:13:54AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 10:16:04PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > 32-bit NUMA systems should be non-existent in practice. The last NUMA
> > system I'm aware of that was both NUMA and 32-bit only died somewhere
> > between 2004 and 2007. If someone is running a 64-bit capable system in
> > 32-bit mode with NUMA, they really are just punishing themselves for fun.
>
> Can we mark it as BROKEN to see if someone shouts and then remove it
> a year or two down the road? Or just kill it off now..

How about making SPARSEMEM default for x86-32?