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 t
* Michal Hocko [2020-03-16 09:54:25]:
> On Sun 15-03-20 14:20:05, Cristopher Lameter wrote:
> > 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,
>
On Sun 15-03-20 14:20:05, Cristopher Lameter wrote:
> 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 memoryles
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
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.
This can cause numa_balancing to be enabled on systems with only one node
with memory and CPUs. The