Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] mm/page_alloc: Keep memoryless cpuless node 0 offline

[Andi Kleen]

> > What's the point of this indirection other than another way of avoiding
> > empty node 0?
> 
> Honestly, I do not have any idea. I've traced it down to
> Author: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue Jan 11 15:35:48 2005 -0800

I don't remember all the details, and I can't even find the commit
(is it in linux-historic?).

But AFAIK there's no guarantee PXMs are small and continuous, so it
seemed better to have a clean zero based space.

Back then we had a lot of problems with buggy SRAT tables in BIOS,
so we really tried to avoid trusting the BIOS as much as possible.

-Andi