From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] Add movablecore_map boot option
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:46:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130114144601.1c40dc7e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F1C97C2DA@ORSMSX108.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:41:03 +0000
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
> > hm, why. Obviously SRAT support will improve things, but is it
> > actually unusable/unuseful with the command line configuration?
>
> Users will want to set these moveable zones along node boundaries
> (the whole purpose is to be able to remove a node by making sure
> the kernel won't allocate anything tricky in it, right?) So raw addresses
> are usable ... but to get them right the user will have to go parse the
> SRAT table manually to come up with the addresses. Any time you
> make the user go off and do some tedious calculation that the computer
> should have done for them is user-abuse.
>
Sure. But SRAT configuration is in progress and the boot option is
better than nothing?
Things I'm wondering:
- is there *really* a case for retaining the boot option if/when
SRAT support is available?
- will the boot option be needed for other archictectures, presumably
because they don't provide sufficient layout information to the
kernel?
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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-14 9:15 [PATCH v5 0/5] Add movablecore_map boot option Tang Chen
2013-01-14 9:15 ` Tang Chen
2013-01-14 9:15 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] x86: get pg_data_t's memory from other node Tang Chen
2013-01-14 9:15 ` Tang Chen
2013-01-14 9:15 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] page_alloc: add movable_memmap kernel parameter Tang Chen
2013-01-14 9:15 ` Tang Chen
2013-01-14 22:35 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-14 22:35 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-14 9:15 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] page_alloc: Introduce zone_movable_limit[] to keep movable limit for nodes Tang Chen
2013-01-14 9:15 ` Tang Chen
2013-01-14 9:15 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] page_alloc: Make movablecore_map has higher priority Tang Chen
2013-01-14 9:15 ` Tang Chen
2013-01-14 9:15 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] page_alloc: Bootmem limit with movablecore_map Tang Chen
2013-01-14 9:15 ` Tang Chen
2013-01-14 17:31 ` [PATCH v5 0/5] Add movablecore_map boot option H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-14 17:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-14 22:34 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-14 22:34 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-14 22:41 ` Luck, Tony
2013-01-14 22:41 ` Luck, Tony
2013-01-14 22:46 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-01-16 6:25 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2013-01-16 6:25 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2013-01-16 21:29 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-16 21:29 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-16 22:01 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-01-16 22:01 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-01-16 23:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-16 23:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-17 20:27 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-01-17 20:27 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-01-16 22:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-16 22:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-17 1:49 ` Tang Chen
2013-01-17 1:49 ` Tang Chen
2013-01-17 20:20 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-01-17 20:20 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-01-17 5:08 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2013-01-17 5:08 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2013-01-17 6:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-17 6:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-17 16:30 ` Luck, Tony
2013-01-17 16:30 ` Luck, Tony
2013-01-17 20:28 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-01-17 20:28 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-01-18 6:05 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2013-01-18 6:05 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2013-01-18 6:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-18 6:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-18 7:38 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2013-01-18 7:38 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2013-01-18 8:08 ` Tang Chen
2013-01-18 8:08 ` Tang Chen
2013-01-18 9:23 ` li guang
2013-01-18 9:23 ` li guang
2013-01-18 18:29 ` Luck, Tony
2013-01-18 18:29 ` Luck, Tony
2013-01-19 1:06 ` Jiang Liu
2013-01-19 7:52 ` Chen Gong
2013-01-21 7:36 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2013-01-15 1:23 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2013-01-15 1:23 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2013-01-15 3:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-15 3:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-15 4:04 ` Luck, Tony
2013-01-15 4:04 ` Luck, Tony
2013-01-15 0:05 ` Toshi Kani
2013-01-15 0:05 ` Toshi Kani
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