William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 01:28:25AM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > Also when we do hotplug memory support will discontigmem be able to
> > efficiently handle memory turning up all over the place in the memory
> > map?
>
> Would the flip side of that coin perhaps be implementing a way to be a
> good logically partitioned citizen and cooperatively offline memory?
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
Yes, both add and remove are needed to be a good citizen. One could
spend all kinds of time coming up with good huristicts to do that
automatically :)
At a mimimum, manual off line of memory would be nice.
Dave.
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