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    SubjectRe: [patch 7/7, v7] NUMA Hotplug Emulator: Implement mem_hotplug/add_memory debugfs interface
    On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, shaohui.zheng@intel.com wrote:

    > From: Shaohui Zheng <shaohui.zheng@intel.com>
    >
    > Add mem_hotplug/add_memory interface to support to memory hotplug emulation.
    > the reserved memory can be added into desired node with this interface.
    >
    > Add a memory section(128M) to node 3(boots with mem=1024m)
    >
    > echo 0x40000000,3 > mem_hotplug/add_memory
    >
    > And more we make it friendly, it is possible to add memory to do
    >
    > echo 3g > mem_hotplug/add_memory
    > echo 1024m,3 > mem_hotplug/add_memory
    >
    > Another format suggested by Dave Hansen:
    >
    > echo physical_address=0x40000000 numa_node=3 > mem_hotplug/add_memory
    >
    > it is more explicit to show meaning of the parameters.
    >

    NACK, we don't need such convoluted definitions if debugfs were extended
    with per-node triggers to add_memory as I suggested in v6 of your
    proposal:

    /sys/kernel/debug/mem_hotplug/add_node (already exists)
    /sys/kernel/debug/mem_hotplug/node0/add_memory
    /sys/kernel/debug/mem_hotplug/node1/add_memory
    ...

    You can then write a physical starting address to the add_memory files to
    hotadd memory to a node other than the one to which it has physical
    affinity. This is much more extendable if we add additional per-node
    triggers later.

    It would also be helpful if you were to reach consensus on the matters
    under discussion before posting a new version of your patchset everyday.


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