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From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@kpanic.de>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tony.luck@intel.com, andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	hpa@zytor.com, rick@vanrein.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net,
	Nancy Yuen <yuenn@google.com>, Michael Ditto <mditto@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:06:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimPMnuoBRT9897hc-qBttyRZn46+A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110622110034.89ee399c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:>
> I have a couple of thoughts here:
>
> - If this patchset is merged and a major user such as google is
>  unable to use it and has to continue to carry a separate patch then
>  that's a regrettable situation for the upstream kernel.
>
> - Google's is, afaik, the largest use case we know of: zillions of
>  machines for a number of years.  And this real-world experience tells
>  us that the badram patchset has shortcomings.  Shortcomings which we
>  can expect other users to experience.
>
> So.  What are your thoughts on these issues?

Has Google submitted patches for their implementation?

josh

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-22 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-22 11:18 [PATCH v2 0/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM) Stefan Assmann
2011-06-22 11:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] Add string parsing function get_next_ulong Stefan Assmann
2011-06-22 11:18 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM) Stefan Assmann
2011-06-22 11:18 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] Add documentation and credits for BadRAM Stefan Assmann
2011-06-22 18:00 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM) Andrew Morton
2011-06-22 18:06   ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2011-06-22 18:09   ` Randy Dunlap
2011-06-22 18:11     ` Nancy Yuen
2011-06-22 18:13   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-22 19:01     ` Nancy Yuen
2011-06-22 19:06       ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-22 18:24   ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-22 18:38     ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-22 18:56       ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-22 19:05         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-22 19:15           ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-22 20:25             ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-22 20:28               ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-22 19:46   ` [PATCH] x86: e820: Eliminate bubble sort from sanitize_e820_map Mike Ditto
2011-06-22 20:18   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM) Stefan Assmann
2011-06-23 10:33     ` Rick van Rein
2011-06-23 10:49       ` Rick van Rein
2011-06-23 10:10   ` Rick van Rein
2011-06-22 18:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-22 20:30   ` Stefan Assmann
2011-06-22 20:33     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-23 13:39 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-23 14:08   ` Stefan Assmann
2011-06-23 14:12     ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-23 15:37       ` Stefan Assmann
2011-06-23 16:30         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-24  0:59           ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-23 17:00         ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-23 17:12           ` Luck, Tony
2011-06-24  1:03             ` Craig Bergstrom
2011-06-24  1:08               ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-24  1:22                 ` Craig Bergstrom
2011-06-24  8:05               ` Rick van Rein
2011-06-24 14:34                 ` Craig Bergstrom
2011-06-24 16:16                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-24 16:40                   ` Luck, Tony
2011-06-24 16:56                     ` Rick van Rein
2011-06-24 17:14                       ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found] <fa.fHPNPTsllvyE/7DxrKwiwgVbVww@ifi.uio.no>
2011-06-24 21:10 ` Shane Nay
2011-06-28  2:33   ` Craig Bergstrom
2011-06-29  8:08     ` Rick van Rein
2011-06-29 15:28       ` craig lkml
2011-06-29 16:06         ` Craig Bergstrom
2011-06-29 21:24           ` Tony Luck
2011-06-30 14:32       ` Jody Belka
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-06-21  9:23 Stefan Assmann
2011-06-21 22:02 ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-22 11:11   ` Stefan Assmann

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