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Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc

From Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc
Date 2017-05-26 16:40 +0200
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On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 01:46:58PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 04:19:53PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>>The commit message for 3af229f2071f says:
>>>
>>>    In practice, we never see a system with 256 NUMA nodes, and in fact, we
>>>    do not support node hotplug on power in the first place, so the nodes
>>>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>    that are online when we come up are the nodes that will be present for
>>>    the lifetime of this kernel.
>>>
>>>Is that no longer true?
>>
>> I don't know what the reasoning behind that statement was at the time,
>> but as far as I can tell, the only thing missing for node hotplug now is
>> Balbir's patchset [1]. He fixes the resource issue which motivated
>> 3af229f2071f and reverts it.
>>
>> With that set, I can instantiate a new numa node just by doing
>> add_memory(nid, ...) where nid doesn't currently exist.
>
>But does that actually happen on any real system?

I don't know if anything currently tries to do this. My interest in 
having this working is so that in the future, our coherent gpu memory 
could be added as a distinct node by the device driver.

-- 
Reza Arbab

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Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc Michael Bringmann <mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-25 02:00 +0200
  Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-05-25 08:30 +0200
    Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc Michael Bringmann <mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-25 15:50 +0200
    Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-25 17:20 +0200
      Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc Michael Bringmann <mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-25 17:30 +0200
      Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> - 2017-05-26 05:50 +0200
      Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-05-26 05:50 +0200
        Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc Michael Bringmann <mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-26 14:40 +0200
        Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-26 16:40 +0200
          Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-05-29 07:40 +0200
            Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc Michael Bringmann <mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-31 16:10 +0200
              Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-06-01 11:40 +0200
                Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-06-01 23:40 +0200
                Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> - 2017-06-07 10:10 +0200
                Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-06-07 14:10 +0200
                Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-06-06 11:50 +0200
                Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc Michael Bringmann <mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-06-06 18:20 +0200
                Re: [Patch 2/2]: powerpc/hotplug/mm: Fix hot-add memory node assoc Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-06-07 14:10 +0200

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