Re: Node Hotplug Support

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu May 13 2004 - 01:47:02 EST


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

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