Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/Kconfig: deprecate DISCONTIGMEM support for 32-bit

[Mel Gorman]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 04:24:12PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Mel Gorman says:
>   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.
> 
> Mark DISCONTIGMEM broken for now and remove it in a couple of releases.
> 
> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

It was really Christoph that suggested marking it broken but I do agree
that it should be marked broken to see if anyone complains and if not,
there is no real reason to keep discontig available on x86.

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Mel Gorman
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