Re: [PATCH] Apply memory policies to top two highest zones whenhighest zone is ZONE_MOVABLE

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Aug 07 2007 - 16:37:43 EST


On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > It's even more constrained than that. It only applies to the MPOL_BIND
> > policy when kernelcore= is specified. The other policies work the same
> > as they ever did.
>
> so.. should we forget about merging the horrible-hack?

Support MPOL_BIND is a basic NUMA feature. This is going to make .23
unusable for us if kernelcore= is used. If we cannot use kernelcore then
NUMA systems cannot use the features that depend on kernelcore.



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