From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752329Ab0ENHAc (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2010 03:00:32 -0400 Received: from e23smtp03.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.145]:35194 "EHLO e23smtp03.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751338Ab0ENHAa (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2010 03:00:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 12:27:44 +0530 From: Balbir Singh 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 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> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * 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