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From: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	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, 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: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:57:07 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2003181855260.18605@www.lameter.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200316085425.GB11482@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On Mon, 16 Mar 2020, Michal Hocko wrote:

> > We can dynamically number the nodes right? So just make sure that the
> > firmware properly creates memory on node 0?
>
> Are you suggesting that the OS would renumber NUMA nodes coming
> from FW just to satisfy node 0 existence? If yes then I believe this is
> really a bad idea because it would make HW/LPAR configuration matching
> to the resulting memory layout really hard to follow.

NUMA nodes are created by the OS based on information provided by the
firmware. Either the FW would need to ensure that a viable node 0 exists
or the bootstrap arch code could setup things to the same effect.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-18 18:57 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
2020-03-16  8:54     ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-18  7:50       ` Srikar Dronamraju
2020-03-18 18:57       ` Christopher Lameter [this message]

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