[Devel] Re: [patch00/05]: Containers(V2)- Introduction

Christoph Lameter clameter at sgi.com
Wed Sep 20 16:01:09 PDT 2006


On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Paul Jackson wrote:

> All in all, it could avoid anything more than trivial changes to the
> existing memory allocation code hot paths.  But the infrastructure
> needed for managing this mechanism needs some non-trivial work.

This is material we have to anyways for hotplug support. Adding a real 
node or a virtual node whatever it is fundamentally the same process that 
requires a regeneration of the zonelists in the system.




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