Re: [RFC 1/8] Convert higest_possible_node_id() into nr_node_ids

[Andi Kleen]

On Tuesday 16 January 2007 16:47, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> I think having the ability to determine the maximum amount of nodes in
> a system at runtime is useful but then we should name this entry
> correspondingly and also only calculate the value once on bootup.

Are you sure this is even possible in general on systems with node
hotplug? The firmware might not pass a maximum limit.

At least CPU hotplug definitely has this issue and I don't see nodes
to be very different.

-Andi
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