Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 02 May 2002 11:21:59 -0500 | From | Dave Engebretsen <> | Subject | Re: Bug: Discontigmem virt_to_page() [Alpha,ARM,Mips64?] |
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William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 01:28:25AM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > Also when we do hotplug memory support will discontigmem be able to > > efficiently handle memory turning up all over the place in the memory > > map? > > Would the flip side of that coin perhaps be implementing a way to be a > good logically partitioned citizen and cooperatively offline memory? > > Cheers, > Bill
Yes, both add and remove are needed to be a good citizen. One could spend all kinds of time coming up with good huristicts to do that automatically :)
At a mimimum, manual off line of memory would be nice.
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