From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vivek Goyal Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/2] Early use of boot service memory Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:34:06 -0500 Message-ID: <20131122023406.GG31921@redhat.com> References: <1385067686-73500-1-git-send-email-jerry.hoemann@hp.com> <20131121230744.GA31592@srcf.ucam.org> <528E94D1.2050809@zytor.com> <20131121233705.GA32121@srcf.ucam.org> <528EAF99.1010503@zytor.com> <20131122012524.GA5627@anatevka.fc.hp.com> <528EB40A.3040203@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <528EB40A.3040203@zytor.com> Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Yinghai Lu , jerry.hoemann@hp.com, Matthew Garrett , Rob Landley , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , the arch/x86 maintainers , Matt Fleming , Andrew Morton , Borislav Petkov , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg , Ingo Molnar List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org 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, 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