On Wed 11-04-18 12:48:32, Michal Hocko wrote: > Hi, > my attention was brought to the %subj commit and either I am missing > something or the patch is quite dubious. What is it actually trying to > fix? If a BIOS/FW provides more memblocks than the limit then we would > get misleading numa topology (numactl -H output) but is the situation > much better with it applied? Numa init code will refuse to init more > memblocks than the limit and falls back to dummy_numa_init (AFAICS) > which will break the topology again and numactl -H will have a > misleading output anyway. > > So why is the patch an improvement at all? ping? I would be tempted to simply revert the patch as a wrong fix. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
