Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:06:38 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM) |
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On 06/22/2011 12:01 PM, Nancy Yuen wrote: > > Good point. There's the MAX_NODES that expands it, though it's still > hard coded, and as I understand, intended for NUMA node entries. We > need anywhere from 8K to 64K 'bad' entries. This creates holes and > translates to twice as many entries in the e820. We only want to > allow this memory if it's needed, instead of hard coding it. >
It should be dynamic, probably. We can waste memory during early reclaim, but the memblock stuff should be dynamic.
-hpa
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