Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Jakub Jelinek <> | | Subject | Re: CPU Management for Linux? | | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 1999 09:08:24 +0100 (CET) |
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> > Is there anyone out in Linuxland working on something I would call > "CPU management"? I would really like to help on that. > > What I understand under "CPU management" and why I want it: > > Walking over the CeBIT fair in Hannover I've seen many really big > servers having 4+ CPUs. I was really impressed by the power of > the 8x Pentium-III-Xeon servers. > > I'm sure it won't be long until we'll see servers which have CPUs > that could be removed or added while running. (And, yes - these > machines are already there, but all these are really BigIrons from > Sun, SGI, IBM etc.) > > Therefore I think Linux should be capable of dealing with CPUs being added > or removed during normal business. YMMV, opinions?
It is in the TODO list for 2.3, including memory hotplugging and bus hotplugging.
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