linux-kernel - Re: [RFC patch] delete improper hot pluggable code of memory affinity

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Message-ID: <87my6z4x7w.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:42:11 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Luming Yu <luming.yu@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch] delete improper hot pluggable code of memory affinity

Luming Yu <luming.yu@...il.com> writes:
>
> The downside of this patch is *some useful info* is lost and a follow
> up patch is needed.

A lot of the heuristics in the hotadd code are obsolete since x86-64
only supports sparsemem/vmememap

I posted another patch for this and also have a followup
series (not posted yet) to address some more problems.

-Andi

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