["RFC PATCH" 1/2] powerpc/mm: Fix node look up with numa=off boot
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Jul 5 00:29:35 AEST 2019
Nathan Lynch <nathanl at linux.ibm.com> writes:
> "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com> writes:
>>> Just checking: do people still need numa=off? Seems like it's a
>>> maintenance burden :-)
>>>
>>
>> That is used in kdump kernel.
>
> I see, thanks.
That doesn't mean it's a good idea :)
Does it actually reduce memory usage much? Last time I dug into the
kdump kernel's usage of weird command line flags none of them really did
anything useful.
cheers
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