Hello, Toshi. On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 02:58:31PM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote: > Let's not assume that memory hotplug is always a niche feature for huge > & special systems. It may be a niche to begin with, but it could be > supported on VMs, which allows anyone to use. Vasilis has been working > on KVM to support memory hotplug. I'm not saying hotplug will always be niche. I'm saying the approach we're currently taking is. It seems fairly inflexible to hang the whole thing on NUMA nodes. What does the planned kvm support do? Splitting SRAT nodes so that it can do both actual NUMA node distribution and hotplug granuliarity? IIRC I asked a couple times what the long term plan was for this feature and there doesn't seem to be any road map for this thing to become a full solution. Unless I misunderstood, this is more of "let's put out the fire as there already are (or gonna be) machines which can do it" kinda thing, which is fine too. My point is that it doesn't make a lot of sense to change boot sequence invasively to accomodate that. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>