From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263776AbUEMGpn (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 02:45:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263831AbUEMGpn (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 02:45:43 -0400 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.132]:30852 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263776AbUEMGpl (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 02:45:41 -0400 Subject: Re: Node Hotplug Support From: Dave Hansen To: Keiichiro Tokunaga Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , hotplug devel , lhns-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20040513153505.21c5fc15.tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20040508003904.63395ca7.tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com> <1083944945.23559.1.camel@nighthawk> <20040510104725.7c9231ee.tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com> <1084167941.28602.478.camel@nighthawk> <20040513102751.48c61d48.tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com> <1084413887.974.7.camel@nighthawk> <20040513153505.21c5fc15.tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1084430738.3189.1.camel@nighthawk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 23:45:38 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 23:35, Keiichiro Tokunaga wrote: > LHNS is focusing on "container device hotplug". Container device > could contain CPUs, memory, and/or IO devices. Container device > could contain only IO devices. In this case, LHNS cannot use > $NODED/control/online (NUMA stuff) for the container device. So, why not expose your containers in the same way that all of the other NUMA node information is exported? What makes your NUMA containers different from all of the other flavors of NUMA implementations in Linux? > By the way, what happen when you issue > "echo 0 > $NODEDIR/control/online"? Can you detach it > from the system after echo-ing? Well, since it doesn't exist yet... Sure :) -- Dave