On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Nick Piggin wrote: > Oh, just while I remember it also, something funny is that MAX_NUMNODES > can be bigger than NR_CPUS on x86. I guess one can have CPUless nodes, > but wouldn't it make sense to have an upper bound of NR_CPUS by default?
There are special configurations that some customers want which involves huge amounts of memory and just a few processors. In that case the number of nodes becomes larger than the number of processors. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
