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

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Fri May 14 2010 - 04:10:49 EST


* Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-05-14 14:42:26]:

> 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.
>

Yes, that would be very nice addition

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Three Cheers,
Balbir
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