From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Power Managed memory base enabling Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:48:46 +0000 Message-ID: <20070326124846.GC11088@ucw.cz> References: <20070305181826.GA21515@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070305181826.GA21515@linux.intel.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Mark Gross Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, mark.gross@intel.com, linux-pm@lists.osdl.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, neelam.chandwani@intel.com List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Hi! > It implements a convention on the 4 bytes of "Proximity Domain ID" > within the SRAT memory affinity structure as defined in ACPI3.0a. If > bit 31 is set, then the memory range represented by that PXM is assumed > to be power managed. We are working on defining a "standard" for > identifying such memory areas as power manageable and progress committee > based. = ... > More will be done, but for now we would like to get this base enabling > into the upstream kernel as an initial step. I'm not sure if the hack above does not disqualify it from mainstream... -- = (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html