From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D566B01F4 for ; Fri, 14 May 2010 03:00:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d23relay05.au.ibm.com (d23relay05.au.ibm.com [202.81.31.247]) by e23smtp08.au.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o4EGw1DH010531 for ; Sat, 15 May 2010 02:58:01 +1000 Received: from d23av02.au.ibm.com (d23av02.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.138]) by d23relay05.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id o4E6odHR1573084 for ; Fri, 14 May 2010 16:50:39 +1000 Received: from d23av02.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av02.au.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id o4E6vm5x014291 for ; Fri, 14 May 2010 16:57:48 +1000 Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 12:27:44 +0530 From: Balbir Singh Subject: Re: [RFC, 0/7] NUMA Hotplug emulator Message-ID: <20100514065744.GB3296@balbir.in.ibm.com> Reply-To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20100513113629.GA2169@shaohui> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100513113629.GA2169@shaohui> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@linux.intel.co, fengguang.wu@intel.com, haicheng.li@linux.intel.com, shaohui.zheng@linux.intel.com List-ID: * Shaohui Zheng [2010-05-13 19:36:30]: > Hi, All > This patchset introduces NUMA hotplug emulator for x86. it refers too > many files and might introduce new bugs, so we send a RFC to comminity first > and expect comments and suggestions, thanks. > > * WHAT IS HOTPLUG EMULATOR > > NUMA hotplug emulator is collectively named for the hotplug emulation > it is able to emulate NUMA Node Hotplug thru a pure software way. It > intends to help people easily debug and test node/cpu/memory hotplug > related stuff on a none-numa-hotplug-support machine, even an UMA machine. > > The emulator provides mechanism to emulate the process of physcial cpu/mem > hotadd, it provides possibility to debug CPU and memory hotplug on the machines > without NUMA support for kenrel developers. It offers an interface for cpu > and memory hotplug test purpose. > Sounds like an interesting project, could you please Post your patches as threaded, ideally having 0/7 to 7/7 in a thread helps track the patches and comments. -- Three Cheers, Balbir -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org