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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/7] [RFC] Sizing zones and holes in an architecture independent manner V2
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Nigel Cunningham wrote:

> It looks to me like this code could be used by the software suspend code in
> our determinations of what pages to save

Potentially yes. Currently, the node map and related functions are marked
__init so they become unavailable but that is not set in stone.

>, particularly in the context of
> memory hotplug support.

Right now during memory hot-add, the memory is not registered with
add_active_range(), but it would be straight-forward to add the call to
add_memory() of each architecture that supported hotplug for example.

> Just some food for thought at the moment; I'll see if
> I can come up with a patch when I have some time, but it might help justify
> getting this merged.
>

Thanks

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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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