On 10/14/2013 01:42 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> >> However, I don't understand how we can avoid #2, given that it is >> fundamentally a sysadmin-driven tradeoff between performance and >> reliability. > > If we make all numa systems support nodes hot-remove logically. > like we boot system with node0, and hot add other nodes one by one, > we should hot remove them later. >
No, it doesn't work that way for memory. You can't do nonmovable allocations from a node that you may need to yank, unless you can migrate that memory node transparently (which hardware can do.) -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/