From: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm/page_alloc: Keep memoryless cpuless node 0 offline
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 14:20:05 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2003151416230.14449@www.lameter.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200311110237.5731-4-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Wed, 11 Mar 2020, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> Currently Linux kernel with CONFIG_NUMA on a system with multiple
> possible nodes, marks node 0 as online at boot. However in practice,
> there are systems which have node 0 as memoryless and cpuless.
Would it not be better and simpler to require that node 0 always has
memory (and processors)? A mininum operational set?
We can dynamically number the nodes right? So just make sure that the
firmware properly creates memory on node 0?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-15 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-11 11:02 [PATCH 0/3] Offline memoryless cpuless node 0 Srikar Dronamraju
2020-03-11 11:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/numa: Set numa_node for all possible cpus Srikar Dronamraju
2020-03-11 11:57 ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-12 5:27 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2020-03-12 8:23 ` Sachin Sant
2020-03-12 9:30 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-03-12 13:14 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2020-03-12 13:51 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-03-12 16:13 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2020-03-12 16:41 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-03-13 9:47 ` Joonsoo Kim
2020-03-13 11:04 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2020-03-13 11:38 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-03-16 8:15 ` Joonsoo Kim
2020-03-13 11:22 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2020-03-16 9:06 ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-17 13:44 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-03-17 14:01 ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-11 11:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc/numa: Prefer node id queried from vphn Srikar Dronamraju
2020-03-11 11:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm/page_alloc: Keep memoryless cpuless node 0 offline Srikar Dronamraju
2020-03-15 14:20 ` Christopher Lameter [this message]
2020-03-16 8:54 ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-18 7:50 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2020-03-18 18:57 ` Christopher Lameter
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