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diff --git a/Documentation/mm/physical_memory.rst b/Documentation/mm/physical_memory.rst index 1bc888d36ea1..d4b7830f0ebc 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/physical_memory.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/physical_memory.rst @@ -114,6 +114,25 @@ RAM equally split between two nodes, there will be ``ZONE_DMA32``, | DMA32 | NORMAL | MOVABLE | | NORMAL | MOVABLE | +---------+----------+-----------+ +------------+-------------+ + +Memory banks may belong to interleaving nodes. In the example below an x86 +machine has 16 Gbytes of RAM in 4 memory banks, even banks belong to node 0 +and odd banks belong to node 1:: + + + 0 4G 8G 12G 16G + +-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ + | node 0 | | node 1 | | node 0 | | node 1 | + +-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ + + 0 16M 4G + +-----+-------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ + | DMA | DMA32 | | NORMAL | | NORMAL | | NORMAL | + +-----+-------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ + +In this case node 0 will span from 0 to 12 Gbytes and node 1 will span from +4 to 16 Gbytes. + .. _nodes: Nodes |