RE: [patch 2/2] add x86-64 support for memory hot-add

From: Tolentino, Matthew E
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 14:58:31 EST


Andi Kleen <mailto:ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday 09 January 2006 20:28, Lu, Yinghai wrote:
>> I don't know, even yes, according to BKDG, you still need to update
>> related Routing Table in NB.
>
> I don't really want any memory controller or HT routing
> touching code in the kernel. It would be far too fragile.
> Pushing that work over to firmware using ACPI seems like
> the right thing to do.

The proposals I've seen for NUMA systems have all done this
through ACPI.

matt
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