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Subject: Re: [v7,
 3/4] powerpc/pseries: Implement indexed-count hotplug memory add
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On Wed, 2017-02-15 at 18:45:56 UTC, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> From: Sahil Mehta <sahilmehta17@gmail.com>
> 
> Indexed-count add for memory hotplug guarantees that a contiguous block
> of <count> lmbs beginning at a specified <drc index> will be assigned,
> any LMBs in this range that are not already assigned will be DLPAR added.
> Because of Qemu's per-DIMM memory management, the addition of a contiguous
> block of memory currently requires a series of individual calls to add
> each LMB in the block. Indexed-count add reduces this series of calls to
> a single call for the entire block.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sahil Mehta <sahilmehta17@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/333f7b76865bec24c66710cf352f89

cheers