On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, shaohui.zheng@intel.com wrote:

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> From: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@intel.com>
> 
> NUMA hotplug emulator introduces a new node state N_HIDDEN to
> identify the fake offlined node. It firstly hides RAM via E820
> table and then emulates fake offlined nodes with the hidden RAM.
> 

Hmm, why can't you use numa=hide to hide a specified quantity of memory 
from the kernel and then use the add_memory() interface to hot-add the 
offlined memory in the desired quantity?  In other words, why do you need 
to track the offlined nodes with a state?

The userspace interface would take a desired size of hidden memory to 
hot-add and the node id would be the first_unset_node(node_online_map).

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> After system bootup, user is able to hotplug-add these offlined
> nodes, which is just similar to a real hardware hotplug behavior.
> 
> Using boot option "numa=hide=N*size" to fake offlined nodes:
> 	- N is the number of hidden nodes
> 	- size is the memory size (in MB) per hidden node.
> 

size should be parsed with memparse() so users can specify 'M' or 'G', it 
would even make your parsing code simpler.
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