Re: [Patch] 1/5 in support of hot-add memory x86_64 nodes_add cleanup

[keith mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>]

On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 18:24 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> If you add attachments (which are harder to review because they cannot be 
> quoted) put at least a copy of the description into the attachment and make
> them inline.

Sorry I will do this if the future.  
> 
> One thing that's unclear to me is why you make the reserve hotadd Kconfig
> user visible (and why put it into Kconfig at all). I don't think it should be 
> user visible.

It was suggested to me in an earlier patch set to move RESERVE_HOTADD to
Kconfig.  I can make it a non-user option.  It seems that MEMORY_HOTPLUG
is a user options so I figured why not make RESERVE one as well.  Also I
don't think people should use reserve with sparsmem. 

> Also most of the patch seems to be renaming a variable which seems somewhat
> pointless?

  srat.c as it stands is very reserve specific (understandably).
Changing found_add_area to reserve_add_area is extra change help the var
names be more clear with the sharing of the code path as to what is
happening.  reserve_add_area is used as a switch for the reserve path. 
Since the logic of the code was changing I thought it would be a good
time to change the name to help the clarity of the code. 

  If you see this as a waste/unneeded I will revert the name change.  


Thanks for the comments,
  Keith