Re: [ANNOUNCE] [PATCH] Node Hotplug Support

[Ingo Oeser]

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On Friday 07 May 2004 21:10, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Admittedly there would still need to be some coordination in case you
> would want to remove a whole building block of your machine like 
> you said. An nice way to do this would be to add an atomic "to be removed"
> state to the individual unregister mechanisms that prevents the 
> device from being reregistered until removed.
 
This is also needed for "to be replaced" state.
Imagine a node with b0rken CPU, where you still like to use its memory.

Both states can be the same actually ;-)


Regards

Ingo Oeser

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