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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	jerry.hoemann@hp.com, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
	"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo.kernel.org@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/2] Early use of boot service memory
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:34:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131122023406.GG31921@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528EB40A.3040203@zytor.com>

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 05:31:54PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 11/21/2013 05:29 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:25 PM,  <jerry.hoemann@hp.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 05:12:57PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >>
> >> Large systems w/ lots of IO require large crash kernel allocations for
> >> the kernel to boot.  Then you have to worry about the OOM killer.....
> > 
> > so go with crashkernel=1024M,high.
> > 
> 
> Yes, there is no bloody excuse to hog that much low memory.

Curious, why is low memory precious on x86_64? Who is going to use it?

Thanks
Vivek

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-22  2:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-21 21:01 [RFC v2 0/2] Early use of boot service memory Jerry Hoemann
2013-11-21 21:01 ` [RFC v2 1/2] efi: " Jerry Hoemann
2013-11-21 21:01 ` [RFC v2 2/2] x86, " Jerry Hoemann
2013-11-21 22:19   ` Borislav Petkov
     [not found] ` <1385067686-73500-1-git-send-email-jerry.hoemann-VXdhtT5mjnY@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-21 23:07   ` [RFC v2 0/2] " Matthew Garrett
     [not found]     ` <20131121230744.GA31592-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-21 23:18       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-21 23:37         ` Matthew Garrett
2013-11-22  1:12           ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-22  1:25             ` jerry.hoemann
     [not found]               ` <20131122012524.GA5627-dMAi7lA+vBPDUbYHzcRnttBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-22  1:29                 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-11-22  2:29                   ` Vivek Goyal
     [not found]                     ` <20131122022957.GE31921-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-22  3:32                       ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
     [not found]                   ` <CAE9FiQUx5rnA0kpqXRQYtpj9Qk-4bPGaUKEbbF=XHsZbnSd6Rg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-22  1:31                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-22  2:34                       ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
     [not found]                         ` <20131122023406.GG31921-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-22  2:42                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-22  2:32                     ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-21 23:31       ` jerry.hoemann-VXdhtT5mjnY
2013-11-21 23:38         ` Matthew Garrett
     [not found]           ` <20131121233831.GB32121-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-22  1:05             ` jerry.hoemann-VXdhtT5mjnY
2013-11-22  1:16               ` Matthew Garrett
2013-12-16 18:43                 ` jerry.hoemann

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