Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [5/8] Fix logic error in 64bit memory hotadd | Date | Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:20:51 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 12 February 2008 11:35:22 Yasunori Goto wrote: > Hi Ingo-san. > > > > Does anyone even > > > use memory hotplug currently? > > > > I don't know. > > IBM's powerpc box can memory hot-add/remove by dynamic partitioning. > And our fujitsu server has memory hot-add feature (Ia-64). > So, they are concrete user of memory hotplug. > > In x86, E8500 chipset has the feature of memory-hotplug. > (I searched a data-sheet from intel site.) > http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/e8500/datashts/30674501.pdf > (6.3.8 IMI Hot-Plug) > > So, it depends on how many server uses it, I think.
With the logic pud error i found and that seems currently will stay for the forseeable future in the tree I don't think x86-64 64bit hotadds for more than 1GB have ever worked with the sparsemem method.
Older trees (before 2.6.24) had also a different method that did preallocate everything based on the SRAT. That one should have worked for this case.
-Andi
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