"Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --On Wednesday, September 07, 2005 11:27:54 -0700 Dave Hansen <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 11:22 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > >> CONFIG_NUMA was meant to (and did at one point) support both NUMA and flat > >> machines. This is essential in order for the distros to support it - same > >> will go for sparsemem. > > > > That's a different issue. The current code works if you boot a NUMA=y > > SPARSEMEM=y machine with a single node. The current Kconfig options > > also enforce that SPARSEMEM depends on NUMA on i386. > > > > Magnus would like to enable SPARSEMEM=y while CONFIG_NUMA=n. That > > requires some Kconfig changes, as well as an extra memory present call. > > I'm questioning why we need to do that when we could never do > > DISCONTIG=y while NUMA=n on i386. > > Ah, OK - makes more sense. However, some machines do have large holes > in e820 map setups - is not really critical, more of an efficiency > thing.
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