Re: [2/8, v5] NUMA Hotplug Emulator: Add node hotplug emulation

[Shaohui Zheng <shaohui.zheng@intel.com>]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 04:01:18PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, shaohui.zheng@intel.com wrote:
> 
> > From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> > 
> > Add an interface to allow new nodes to be added when performing memory
> > hot-add.  This provides a convenient interface to test memory hotplug
> > notifier callbacks and surrounding hotplug code when new nodes are
> > onlined without actually having a machine with such hotpluggable SRAT
> > entries.
> > 
> > This adds a new debugfs interface at /sys/kernel/debug/hotplug/add_node
> > that behaves in a similar way to the memory hot-add "probe" interface.
> > Its format is size@start, where "size" is the size of the new node to be
> > added and "start" is the physical address of the new memory.
> > 
> 
> Looks like you've changed some of the references in my changlog to 
> node/add_node, but not others, such as the above.  I'd actually much 
> rather prefer to take Greg's latest suggestion of doing 
> s/hotplug/mem_hotplug instead.
> 
> Would it be possible to repost the patch with that change?
> 
> Thanks!

We have two memory hotplug interfaces here:
add_node: add a new NUMA node
probe: add memory section

so puting add_node to node/add_node and puting probe to memory/probe should make sense. 
it is similar with sysfs hierarchy.

if we want to move the add_node to mem_hotplug/add_node, I'd prefer to put the probe
interface to mem_hotplug/probe since they are also related to memory hotplug.

I will include this change in next patchset.

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Thanks & Regards,
Shaohui