linux-kernel - Re: Topology updates and NUMA-level sched domains

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Date:	Wed, 08 Apr 2015 12:32:01 +0200
From:	Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@...ia.fr>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: Topology updates and NUMA-level sched domains

Le 07/04/2015 21:41, Peter Zijlstra a écrit :
> No, that's very much not the same. Even if it were dealing with hotplug
> it would still assume the cpu to return to the same node.
>
> But mostly people do not even bother to handle hotplug.
>

You said userspace assumes the cpu<->node relation is a boot-time fixed
one, and hotplug breaks this. How do you expect userspace to handle
hotplug? Is there a convenient way to be notified when a CPU (or memory)
is unplugged?

thanks
Brice
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