That *is* user abuse. Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >2013/01/15 7:41, Luck, Tony wrote: >>> hm, why. Obviously SRAT support will improve things, but is it >>> actually unusable/unuseful with the command line configuration? >> > >> Users will want to set these moveable zones along node boundaries >> (the whole purpose is to be able to remove a node by making sure >> the kernel won't allocate anything tricky in it, right?) > >Yes > >> So raw addresses >> are usable ... but to get them right the user will have to go parse >the >> SRAT table manually to come up with the addresses. > >I don't think so because user can easily get raw address by kernel >message in x86. > >Here are kernel messages of x86 architecture. >--- >[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 [mem 0x00000000-0x7fffffff] >[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 [mem 0x100000000-0x7ffffffff] >[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 1 PXM 2 [mem 0x1000000000-0x17ffffffff] >[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 2 PXM 3 [mem 0x1800000000-0x1fffffffff] >[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 3 PXM 4 [mem 0x2000000000-0x27ffffffff] >[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 4 PXM 5 [mem 0x2800000000-0x2fffffffff] >[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 5 PXM 6 [mem 0x3000000000-0x37ffffffff] >[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 6 PXM 7 [mem 0x3800000000-0x3fffffffff] >[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 7 PXM 1 [mem 0x800000000-0xfffffffff] >--- > >Thanks, >Yasuaki Ishimatsu > >> Any time you >> make the user go off and do some tedious calculation that the >computer >> should have done for them is user-abuse. >> >> -Tony >> -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting. -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>