Re: [Lhns-devel] Re: Who's doing what with cpu/memory/node hotplug?

Matthias Fouquet-Lapar
2004-05-17T07:35:02Z

> There's been a lot of talk of what to do with hotplug CPUs as well. No
> matter what, it's going to be really easy to notify whatever app you
> want with the hotplug scripts whenever a memory or CPU event happens.
> Just place your app script in /etc/hotplug.d.

Just curious, but what's the underlying reason for providing CPU hotplug ?
If the background is taking a "bad" CPU offline, what kind of CPU failures
are expected to be covered ?

Thanks

Matthias Fouquet-Lapar Core Platform Software mfl@sgi.com VNET 521-8213
Principal Engineer Silicon Graphics Home Office (+33) 1 3047 4127