linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: base: memory: Export symbols for onlining memory blocks

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Message-ID: <51F040E8.1030507@intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:02:32 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:	KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
CC:	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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	"kay@...y.org" <kay@...y.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: base: memory: Export symbols for onlining
 memory blocks

On 07/24/2013 12:45 PM, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> All I am saying is that I see two classes of failures: (a) Our
> inability to allocate memory to manage the memory that is being hot added
> and (b) Our inability to bring the hot added memory online within a reasonable
> amount of time. I am not sure the cause for (b) and I was just speculating that
> this could be memory related. What is interesting is that I have seen failure related
> to our inability to online the memory after having succeeded in hot adding the
> memory.

I think we should hold off on this patch and other like it until we've
been sufficiently able to explain how (b) happens.

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