Re: [RFC,2/7] NUMA Hotplug emulator

[Haicheng Li]

Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:16:15AM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 May 2010 19:45:44 +0800
> > Shaohui Zheng <shaohui.zheng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > x86: infrastructure of NUMA hotplug emulation
> > Hmm. do we have to create this for x86 only ?
> > Can't we live with lmb ? as
> >
> > 	lmb_hide_node() or some.
> >
> > IIUC, x86-version lmb is now under development.
> Indeed. There is very little x86-specific about this patch series at all
> except for the e820 bits and tying in the CPU topology. Most of what this
> series is doing wrapping around e820 could be done on top of LMB, which
> would also make it possible to use on non-x86 architectures.

Hmm, we'll evaluate it. We'd like to make it support non-x86 archs if LMB is a feasible way.
Thank you, Kame and Paul.

-haicheng

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