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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: [RFC,5/7] NUMA hotplug emulator
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 16:11:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100507141142.GA8696@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100513115625.GF2169@shaohui>

Hi!

> hotplug emulator: Abstract cpu register functions
> 
> Abstract function arch_register_cpu and register_cpu, move the implementation
> details to a sub function with prefix "__". 
> 
> each of the sub function has an extra parameter nid, it can be used to register
> CPU under a fake NUMA node, it is a reserved interface for cpu hotplug emulation
> (CPU PROBE/RELEASE) in x86.

I don't get it. CPU hotplug can already be tested using echo 0/1 >
online, and that works on 386. How is this different?

It seems to add some numa magic. Why is it important?

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-16 12:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-13 11:56 [RFC,5/7] NUMA hotplug emulator Shaohui Zheng
2010-05-07 14:11 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2010-05-16 17:45   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-05-17  2:42     ` Haicheng Li
2010-05-17  3:37   ` Shaohui Zheng
2010-05-17  9:39     ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-17  9:38   ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-13 12:11 ` Jean Delvare
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-13 12:14 Shaohui Zheng
2010-05-14  5:49 ` Paul Mundt
2010-05-18  9:03   ` Shaohui Zheng

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