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Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:29:53 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>, IWAMOTO Toshihiro <iwamoto@valinux.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: memory hotremove prototype, take 3
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>> IIRC, memory is contiguous within a NUMA node.  I think Goto-san will
>> clarify this issue when his code gets ready. :-)
> 
> Not on all systems.  On sn2 we use ia64's virtual memmap to make memory
> within a node appear contiguous, even though it may not be.

Wasn't there a plan to get rid of that though? I forget what it was,
probably using CONFIG_NONLINEAR too ... ?

M.