On 06/24/2014 05:33 PM, Igor Mammedov wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:33:10 -0700 > Nishanth Aravamudan <n...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > >> Add a present field to NodeInfo which indicates if a given nodeid was >> present on the command-line or not. Current code relies on a memory >> value being passed for a node to indicate presence, which is >> insufficient in the presence of memoryless nodes or sparse numbering. >> Adjust the iteration of various NUMA loops to use the maximum known NUMA >> ID rather than the number of NUMA nodes. > Why would you need sparse numbering? > What task exactly are you trying to solve?
This is to reproduce+debug the real POWERPC hardware behavior. No practical use as far as I can tell. -- Alexey
