Re: [RFC, 3/7] NUMA hotplug emulator

[Shaohui Zheng]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 09:55:11AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 07:48:35PM +0800, Shaohui Zheng wrote:
> > Userland interface to hotplug-add fake offlined nodes.
> 
> Why include 2 copies of the patch in one email?
I always try to attach the patch as attachment, it is the same with the mail
content, I guess it should take convenience when you need to save the patch 
to local, it might be a bad habbit, I will be careful when I send patch next time.
thanks for the reminding.

> 
> > Add a sysfs entry "probe" under /sys/devices/system/node/:
> > 
> >  - to show all fake offlined nodes:
> >     $ cat /sys/devices/system/node/probe
> > 
> >  - to hotadd a fake offlined node, e.g. nodeid is N:
> >     $ echo N > /sys/devices/system/node/probe
> 
> As you are trying to add a new sysfs file, please create the matching
> Documentation/ABI/ file as well.

Agree, We will document it in.

> 
> Also note that sysfs files are "one value per file", which I don't think
> this file follows, right?

Agree, the cpu/probe interface should write only, and we should create another
file to indicate the hidden nodes, such as cpu/hidden. We will follow this rule
when we send the formal patch.

Thanks greg's comments so much, have a nice day.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

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Thanks & Regards,
Shaohui

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