On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Memory hotplug with node add never quite worked on x86 before, > > > for various reasons not related to slab. > > > > Ok but why did things break in such a big way? > > 1) numa memory hotadd never worked Well Kamesan indicated that this worked if a cpu became online. > 2) the rest just bitrotted because nobody tested it. Yep. David: Can you revise the relevant portions of the patchset and repost it? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>