Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] mm: Enable CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES by default for NUMA

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[ sorry for a late reply too, somehow I missed this thread before ]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 10:14:15AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> [Sorry for a late reply]
> 
> On Mon 15-07-19 17:55:07, Hoan Tran OS wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 7/12/19 10:00 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> [...]
> > > Hmm, I thought this was selectable. But I am obviously wrong here.
> > > Looking more closely, it seems that this is indeed only about
> > > __early_pfn_to_nid and as such not something that should add a config
> > > symbol. This should have been called out in the changelog though.
> > 
> > Yes, do you have any other comments about my patch?
> 
> Not really. Just make sure to explicitly state that
> CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES is only about __early_pfn_to_nid and that
> doesn't really deserve it's own config and can be pulled under NUMA.
> 
> > > Also while at it, does HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP fall into a similar
> > > bucket? Do we have any NUMA architecture that doesn't enable it?
> > > 

HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP makes huge difference in node/zone initialization
sequence so it's not only about a singe function.

> > As I checked with arch Kconfig files, there are 2 architectures, riscv 
> > and microblaze, do not support NUMA but enable this config.

My take would be that riscv will support NUMA some day.
 
> > And 1 architecture, alpha, supports NUMA but does not enable this config.

alpha's NUMA support is BROKEN for more than a decade now, I doubt it'll
ever get fixed.
 
> Care to have a look and clean this up please?
> 
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.




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