Re: Node Hotplug Support

From: Keiichiro Tokunaga
Date: Thu May 13 2004 - 20:16:38 EST


On Wed, 12 May 2004 23:45:38 -0700
Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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 :)

The same way as you described in your previous email seems
work for a container device if we have $CONTAINERD/online.
Anyway, I feel we need to be more specific about implementation.
Is there already any information that I can access?

Thanks,
Kei
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