Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86: Reduce memory and intra-node effects withlarge count NR_CPUs

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:

> Oh, just while I remember it also, something funny is that MAX_NUMNODES
> can be bigger than NR_CPUS on x86. I guess one can have CPUless nodes,
> but wouldn't it make sense to have an upper bound of NR_CPUS by default?

There are special configurations that some customers want which involves 
huge amounts of memory and just a few processors. In that case the number 
of nodes becomes larger than the number of processors.

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