Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:47:37 +0900 | From | YoshiyaETO <> | Subject | Re: 2.7 thoughts |
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> I don't see any reason to connect it with the notion of a node. If the word "Node" is not so appropriate, I will use "Unit". And I also make it simple, "Unit" will have CPUs and/or Memory. On the other hand IO-Unit will have IOs.
> The main points of contention would appear to be cooperative vs. > forcible (where I believe cooperative is acknowledged as the only I could not understand what is forcible. Everything should be cooperative, I think.
----- Original Message ----- From: "William Lee Irwin III" <wli@holomorphy.com> To: "YoshiyaETO" <eto@soft.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Stuart Longland" <stuartl@longlandclan.hopto.org>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; "Stephan von Krawczynski" <skraw@ithnet.com>; <lgb@lgb.hu>; <Fabian.Frederick@prov-liege.be> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 4:40 PM Subject: Re: 2.7 thoughts
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:19:46PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > >>> * hotplug motherboard & entire computer too I spose ;-) > > > From: "William Lee Irwin III" <wli@holomorphy.com> > >> Um, this is worse than the above wrt. being too vague. > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:30:27PM +0900, YoshiyaETO wrote: > > "Hotplug node" is a better explanation, I think. > > "Node" includes CPUs and/or Memory and/or some kind of IOs. > > And "Node" should be flexibly configurable also. > > I don't see any reason to connect it with the notion of a node. > > The main points of contention would appear to be cooperative vs. > forcible (where I believe cooperative is acknowledged as the only > feasible problem), and the potential connections with ZONE_HIGHMEM > wrt. constraints that would artificially introduce to 64-bit kernels. > > The fact some systems would want to do whole nodes at a time with > some cpus and io buses in tandem is largely immaterial and doesn't > simplify, complicate, or otherwise affect the VM mechanics. > > -- wli > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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