> 2. If the user *does* care which nodes are movable, then the user needs > to be able to specify that *in a way that makes sense to the user*. > This may mean involving the DMI information as well as SRAT in order to > get "silk screen" type information out.
One reason they might care would be which I/O devices are connected to each node. DMI might be a good way to get an invariant name for the node, but they might also want to specify in terms of what they actually want. E.g. "eth0 and eth4 are a redundant bonded pair of NICs - don't mark both these nodes as removable". Though this is almost certainly not a job for kernel options, but for some user configuration tool that would spit out the DMI names. -Tony
