From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, haicheng.li@linux.intel.com,
shaohui.zheng@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC, 6/7] NUMA hotplug emulator
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:58:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100513185844.GA5959@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1273776578.13285.7820.camel@nimitz>
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:49:38AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 11:15 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > echo "physical_address=0x40000000 numa_node=3" > memory/probe
> > >
> > > I'd *GREATLY* prefer that over this new syntax. The existing mechanism
> > > is obtuse enough, and the ',3' makes it more so.
> > >
> > > We should have the code around to parse arguments like that, too, since
> > > we use it for the boot command-line.
> >
> > If you are going to be doing something like this, please use configfs,
> > that is what it is designed for, not sysfs.
>
> That's probably a really good point, especially since configfs didn't
> even exist when we made this 'probe' file thingy. It never was a great
> fit for sysfs anyway.
Really? configfs was added in 2.6.16, when was this probe file added?
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-13 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-13 12:00 [RFC, 6/7] NUMA hotplug emulator Shaohui Zheng
2010-05-13 16:56 ` Greg KH
2010-05-13 18:02 ` Dave Hansen
2010-05-13 18:15 ` Greg KH
2010-05-13 18:49 ` Dave Hansen
2010-05-13 18:58 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-05-13 19:16 ` Dave Hansen
2010-05-13 19:21 ` Greg KH
2010-05-18 5:41 ` Shaohui Zheng
2010-05-18 7:27 ` Dave Hansen
2010-05-18 7:56 ` Shaohui Zheng
2010-05-18 8:55 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-18 15:46 ` Dave Hansen
2010-05-18 7:44 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-05-18 7:44 ` Paul Mundt
2010-05-18 8:08 ` Shaohui Zheng
2010-05-14 1:49 ` Shaohui Zheng
2010-05-14 2:05 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-05-14 2:08 ` Shaohui Zheng
2010-05-21 10:11 ` Ankita Garg
2010-05-24 1:26 ` Shaohui Zheng
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