On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 00:18:09 -0700
Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > How come? Memoryless node can and do occur in real-world machines. Kernel
> > > should support that?
> >
> > But a node is just defined by its memory?
>
> Don't think so. A node is a lump of circuitry which can have zero or more
> CPUs, IO and memory.
>
> It may initially have been conceived as a memory-only concept in the Linux
> kernel, but that doesn't fully map onto reality (does it?)
>
> There was a real-world need for this, I think from the Fujitsu guys. That
> should be spelled out in the changelog but isn't.
Yes, Fujitsu and HP guys really need this memory-less-node support.
Thanks,
-Kame
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