Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:54:17 +0800 | From | Américo Wang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFCv4 0/6] The Contiguous Memory Allocator framework |
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 06:01:56AM +0200, Michał Nazarewicz wrote: >KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: >>128MB...too big ? But it's depend on config. > >On embedded systems it may be like half of the RAM. Or a quarter. So bigger >granularity could be desired on some platforms. > >>IBM's ppc guys used 16MB section, and recently, a new interface to shrink >>the number of /sys files are added, maybe usable. >> >>Something good with this approach will be you can create "cma" memory >>before installing driver. > >That's how CMA works at the moment. But if I understand you correctly, what >you are proposing would allow to reserve memory *at* *runtime* long after system >has booted. This would be a nice feature as well though. >
Yeah, if we can do this, that will avoid rebooting for kdump to reserve memory.
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