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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/21] mm: introduce Designated Movable Blocks
    On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 2:57 PM Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    > MOTIVATION:
    > Some Broadcom devices (e.g. 7445, 7278) contain multiple memory
    > controllers with each mapped in a different address range within
    > a Uniform Memory Architecture. Some users of these systems have
    > expressed the desire to locate ZONE_MOVABLE memory on each
    > memory controller to allow user space intensive processing to
    > make better use of the additional memory bandwidth.
    > Unfortunately, the historical monotonic layout of zones would
    > mean that if the lowest addressed memory controller contains
    > ZONE_MOVABLE memory then all of the memory available from
    > memory controllers at higher addresses must also be in the
    > ZONE_MOVABLE zone. This would force all kernel memory accesses
    > onto the lowest addressed memory controller and significantly
    > reduce the amount of memory available for non-movable
    > allocations.

    Why are you sending kernel patches to the Devicetree specification list?

    Rob

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