[PATCH v2 3/4] mm: Implement reset_numa_mem

Christopher Lameter cl at linux.com
Thu Mar 19 06:20:41 AEDT 2020


On Wed, 18 Mar 2020, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:

> For a memoryless or offline nodes, node_numa_mem refers to a N_MEMORY
> fallback node. Currently kernel has an API set_numa_mem that sets
> node_numa_mem for memoryless node. However this API cannot be used for
> offline nodes. Hence all offline nodes will have their node_numa_mem set
> to 0. However systems can themselves have node 0 as offline i.e

That is a significant change to the basic assumptions for memory less
nodes. Node 0 needed to have memory and processors. Not sure what else
may break.




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