Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: Fix undefined init_cache_node_node() for NUMA and !SMP

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 09:16:55AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 3/21/23 09:40, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 09:30:59AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >> -#if (defined(CONFIG_NUMA) && defined(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG)) || defined(CONFIG_SMP)
> >> +#if defined(CONFIG_NUMA) || defined(CONFIG_SMP)
> > I'm amused by the thought of CONFIG_NUMA without CONFIG_SMP.
> > Is it possible to have one node with memory and a single CPU, then
> > another node with memory and no CPU?
> 
> It's _possible_ for sure, just unlikely.  The most likely place these
> days is probably a teensy tiny VM that just happens to have some
> performance-differentiated memory exposed to it for some reason.  Maybe
> it's got a slice of slow PMEM or fast High-Bandwidth memory for whatever
> reason.

Right, you can construct such a system, but do we support the CONFIG
options of NUMA enabled and SMP disabled?  It seems so niche that we
shouldn't be spending time testing that combination.