Le mardi 19 juillet 2011 à 15:05 +0800, Cong Wang a écrit : > 于 2011年07月19日 14:54, Eric Dumazet 写道: > > Le mardi 19 juillet 2011 à 14:20 +0800, Cong Wang a écrit : > > > >> Hmm, since we don't have to enable SYSFS for NUMA, how about > >> make a new Kconfig for drivers/base/node.c? I.e., CONFIG_NUMA_SYSFS, > >> like patch below. > >> > > > > I dont quite understand this patch, nor the idea behind it. > > > > You can have a NUMA kernel (for appropriate percpu locality or whatever > > kernel data), and yet user land processes unable to use numactl if SYSFS > > is not enabled. I dont see a problem. > > > > Both Pekka and Mel pointed out that it makes sense to have NUMA kernel > without SYSFS, this means sysfs interface is not a must for NUMA kernel. > Thus, I think it makes sense to separate the numa sysfs code out. Sorry, I misread the patch, I was confused by the title, since it still claims "make CONFIG_NUMA depend on CONFIG_SYSFS" ;) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>