From: "Mika Penttilä" <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@gmail.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
ak@suse.de, bob.picco@hp.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] Have x86_64 use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:46:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F7F376.4030203@kolumbus.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609010928010.25057@skynet.skynet.ie>
>
> Right, it's all very clear now. At some point in the future, I'd like
> to visit why SPARSEMEM-based hot-add is not always used but it's a
> separate issue.
>
>> The add areas
>> are marked as RESERVED during boot and then later onlined during add.
>
> That explains the reserve_bootmem_node()
>
But pages are marked reserved by default. You still have to alloc the
bootmem map for the the whole node range, including reserve hot add
areas and areas beyond e820-end-of-ram. So all the areas are already
reserved, until freed.
--Mika
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-21 13:45 [PATCH 0/6] Sizing zones and holes in an architecture independent manner V9 Mel Gorman
2006-08-21 13:45 ` [PATCH 1/6] Introduce mechanism for registering active regions of memory Mel Gorman
2006-08-21 13:45 ` [PATCH 2/6] Have Power use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes() Mel Gorman
2006-08-21 13:46 ` [PATCH 3/6] Have x86 use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes Mel Gorman
2006-08-21 13:46 ` [PATCH 4/6] Have x86_64 " Mel Gorman
2006-08-30 20:57 ` Keith Mannthey
2006-08-31 15:49 ` Mel Gorman
2006-08-31 16:25 ` Mika Penttilä
2006-08-31 17:01 ` Mel Gorman
2006-08-31 17:40 ` Mika Penttilä
2006-08-31 17:52 ` Keith Mannthey
2006-08-31 18:40 ` Mel Gorman
2006-09-01 3:08 ` Keith Mannthey
2006-09-01 8:33 ` Mel Gorman
2006-09-01 8:46 ` Mika Penttilä [this message]
2006-09-04 15:36 ` Mel Gorman
2006-09-04 15:38 ` Account for holes that are outside the range of physical memory Mel Gorman
2006-09-04 15:39 ` Allow an arch to expand node boundaries Mel Gorman
2006-08-21 13:46 ` [PATCH 5/6] Have ia64 use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes Mel Gorman
2006-08-21 13:47 ` [PATCH 6/6] Account for memmap and optionally the kernel image as holes Mel Gorman
2006-08-21 18:52 ` [PATCH 0/6] Sizing zones and holes in an architecture independent manner V9 Keith Mannthey
2006-08-22 8:38 ` Mel Gorman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-08 11:10 [PATCH 0/6] Sizing zones and holes in an architecture independent manner V8 Mel Gorman
2006-07-08 11:12 ` [PATCH 4/6] Have x86_64 use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes Mel Gorman
2006-05-08 14:10 [PATCH 0/6] Sizing zones and holes in an architecture independent manner V6 Mel Gorman
2006-05-08 14:11 ` [PATCH 4/6] Have x86_64 use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes Mel Gorman
2006-05-20 20:59 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-20 21:27 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-20 21:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-20 22:17 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-20 22:54 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-21 16:20 ` Mel Gorman
2006-05-21 15:50 ` Mel Gorman
2006-05-21 19:08 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-21 22:23 ` Mel Gorman
2006-05-23 18:01 ` Mel Gorman
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