Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Nov 03 2005 - 12:23:27 EST




On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>
> The problem is how these zones get resized. Can we hotplug memory between
> them, with some sparsemem like indirection layer?

I think you should be able to add them. You can remove them. But you can't
resize them.

And I suspect that by default, there should be zero of them. Ie you'd have
to set them up the same way you now set up a hugetlb area.

Linus
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