Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:29:53 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] Add movablecore_map boot option |
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:25:44 +0900 Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > > > Things I'm wondering: > > > > - is there *really* a case for retaining the boot option if/when > > SRAT support is available? > > Yes. If SRAT support is available, all memory which enabled hotpluggable > bit are managed by ZONEMOVABLE. But performance degradation may > occur by NUMA because we can only allocate anonymous page and page-cache > from these memory. > > In this case, if user cannot change SRAT information, user needs a way to > select/set removable memory manually.
If I understand this correctly you mean that once SRAT parsing is implemented, the user can use movablecore_map to override that SRAT parsing, yes? That movablecore_map will take precedence over SRAT?
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