From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754313Ab0KQFWu (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:22:50 -0500 Received: from 124x34x33x190.ap124.ftth.ucom.ne.jp ([124.34.33.190]:44823 "EHLO master.linux-sh.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751244Ab0KQFWt (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:22:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:22:13 +0900 From: Paul Mundt To: shaohui.zheng@intel.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, haicheng.li@linux.intel.com, ak@linux.intel.com, shaohui.zheng@linux.intel.com Subject: Re: [0/8,v3] NUMA Hotplug Emulator - Introduction & Feedbacks Message-ID: <20101117052213.GA10671@linux-sh.org> References: <20101117020759.016741414@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101117020759.016741414@intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:07:59AM +0800, shaohui.zheng@intel.com wrote: > * PATCHSET INTRODUCTION > > patch 1: Add function to hide memory region via e820 table. Then emulator will > use these memory regions to fake offlined numa nodes. > patch 2: Infrastructure of NUMA hotplug emulation, introduce "hide node". > patch 3: Provide an userland interface to hotplug-add fake offlined nodes. > patch 4: Abstract cpu register functions, make these interface friend for cpu > hotplug emulation > patch 5: Support cpu probe/release in x86, it provide a software method to hot > add/remove cpu with sysfs interface. > patch 6: Fake CPU socket with logical CPU on x86, to prevent the scheduling > domain to build the incorrect hierarchy. > patch 7: extend memory probe interface to support NUMA, we can add the memory to > a specified node with the interface. > patch 8: Documentations > > * FEEDBACKS & RESPONSES > I had some comments on the other patches in the series that possibly got missed because of the mail-followup-to confusion: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/15/11 http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/15/14 http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/15/15 The other one you've already dealt with.