Messages in this thread | | | From | Jeff Moyer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 00/10] mm: Sub-section memory hotplug support | Date | Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:28:00 -0400 |
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Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> writes:
>> > and I would like to know that you are >> > not just shifting the problem to a smaller unit and a new/creative HW >> > will force us to go even more complicated. >> >> HW will not do this to us. It's software that has the problem. >> Namespace creation is unnecessarily constrained to 128MB alignment. > > And why is that a problem? A lack of documentation that this is a > requirement? Something will not work with a larger alignment? Someting > else?
See this email for one user-visible problem: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/x49imxbx22d.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com/
Cheers, Jeff
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