From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx135.postini.com [74.125.245.135]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F5A26B0031 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:02:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <51F040E8.1030507@intel.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:02:32 -0700 From: Dave Hansen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: base: memory: Export symbols for onlining memory blocks References: <1374261785-1615-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <20130722123716.GB24400@dhcp22.suse.cz> <51EEA11D.4030007@intel.com> <3318be0a96cb4d05838d76dc9d088cc0@SN2PR03MB061.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <51EEA89F.9070309@intel.com> <9f351a549e76483d9148f87535567ea0@SN2PR03MB061.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <51F00415.8070104@sr71.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: KY Srinivasan Cc: Dave Hansen , Michal Hocko , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" , "olaf@aepfle.de" , "apw@canonical.com" , "andi@firstfloor.org" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com" , "hannes@cmpxchg.org" , "yinghan@google.com" , "jasowang@redhat.com" , "kay@vrfy.org" On 07/24/2013 12:45 PM, KY Srinivasan wrote: > All I am saying is that I see two classes of failures: (a) Our > inability to allocate memory to manage the memory that is being hot added > and (b) Our inability to bring the hot added memory online within a reasonable > amount of time. I am not sure the cause for (b) and I was just speculating that > this could be memory related. What is interesting is that I have seen failure related > to our inability to online the memory after having succeeded in hot adding the > memory. I think we should hold off on this patch and other like it until we've been sufficiently able to explain how (b) happens. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org