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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] mm, hotplug: probe interface is available on several platforms
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:22:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5398D691.7050202@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1406111511450.27885@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On 06/11/2014 03:15 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> +CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE and can be configured on powerpc, sh, and x86
> +if hotplug is supported, although for x86 this should be handled by ACPI
> +notification.

Looks like a good change, in general.

My only nit is that this implies that all hotplug on x86 is ACPI-based,
which isn't true.  Xen, at least, has an extension to its ballooning
that does hotplugs without ACPI.

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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] mm, hotplug: probe interface is available on several platforms
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:22:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5398D691.7050202@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1406111511450.27885@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On 06/11/2014 03:15 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> +CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE and can be configured on powerpc, sh, and x86
> +if hotplug is supported, although for x86 this should be handled by ACPI
> +notification.

Looks like a good change, in general.

My only nit is that this implies that all hotplug on x86 is ACPI-based,
which isn't true.  Xen, at least, has an extension to its ballooning
that does hotplugs without ACPI.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-11 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-11  9:12 Proposal to realize hot-add *several sections one time* Zhang Zhen
2014-06-11  9:12 ` Zhang Zhen
2014-06-11 22:08 ` David Rientjes
2014-06-11 22:08   ` David Rientjes
2014-06-11 22:15   ` [patch] mm, hotplug: probe interface is available on several platforms David Rientjes
2014-06-11 22:15     ` David Rientjes
2014-06-11 22:22     ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2014-06-11 22:22       ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-12  2:41   ` Proposal to realize hot-add *several sections one time* Zhang Zhen
2014-06-12  2:41     ` Zhang Zhen
2014-06-12  7:07     ` David Rientjes
2014-06-12  7:07       ` David Rientjes
2014-06-13  7:31       ` Zhang Zhen
2014-06-13  7:31         ` Zhang Zhen

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