RE: booting with `mem=' on an Altix (or other NUMA machine)

From: Chen, Kenneth W <kenneth.w.chen_at_intel.com>
Date: 2006-04-12 03:58:15
Luck, Tony wrote on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 10:32 AM
> >> that was discussed before:
> >> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ia64&m=109718964113183&w=2
> >
> >I only see a patch there but no discussion.
> 
> It doesn't look like this would solve the NUMA issue.  Maybe you'd
> want a "mempernode=" boot parameter?  But this would likely get complex
> in a hurry as various people add more options to meet their specific
> needs.

We probably should disable that boot option on numa system and rely on
memory hotplug to reduce physical memory per node?

- Ken
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