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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:42:57 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH part2 v2 0/8] Arrange hotpluggable memory as ZONE_MOVABLE
From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei.yes@gmail.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
        Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>,
        Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:35 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
...
>> 2. also we should avoid adding "movable_nodes" command line.
...
>> 6. in the long run, We should rework our NUMA booting:
>> a. boot system with boot numa nodes early only.
>> b. in later init stage or user space, init other nodes
>> RAM/CPU/PCI...in parallel.
>> that will reduce boot time for 8 sockets/32 sockets dramatically.
>>
>> We will need to parse srat table early so could avoid init memory for
>> non-boot nodes.
>>
>
> I really like the long-term plan (and, I might want to add, the above
> writeup.)
>
> 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.

Thanks

Yinghai
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