DISCONTIGMEM is deprecated
From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Fri Apr 19 2019 - 18:54:34 EST
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 10:43:35AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> DISCONTIG is essentially deprecated and even parisc plans to move to
> SPARSEMEM so there is no need to be fancy, this patch simply disables
> watermark boosting by default on DISCONTIGMEM.
I don't think parisc is the only arch which uses DISCONTIGMEM for !NUMA
scenarios. Grepping the arch/ directories shows:
alpha (does support NUMA, but also non-NUMA DISCONTIGMEM)
arc (for supporting more than 1GB of memory)
ia64 (looks complicated ...)
m68k (for multiple chunks of memory)
mips (does support NUMA but also non-NUMA)
parisc (both NUMA and non-NUMA)
I'm not sure that these architecture maintainers even know that DISCONTIGMEM
is deprecated. Adding linux-arch to the cc.