On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > We use the topology provided by the hypervisor, it does actually reflect > where CPUs and memory are, and their corresponding performance/NUMA > characteristics. And so there are actually nodes without memory that have processors? Can the hypervisor or the linux arch code be convinced to ignore nodes without memory or assign a sane default node to processors? > > Ok then also move the memory of the local node somewhere? > > This happens below the OS, we don't control the hypervisor's decisions. > I'm not sure if that's what you are suggesting. You could also do this from the powerpc arch code by sanitizing the processor / node information that is then used by Linux. -- 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>