Re: [PATCH 17/21] page_alloc, mem-hotplug: Improve movablecore to{en|dis}able using SRAT.

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Tang.

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:50:12AM +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> movablecore boot option was used to specify the size of ZONE_MOVABLE. And
> this patch-set aims to arrange ZONE_MOVABLE with SRAT info. So my original
> thinking is to reuse movablecore.
> 
> Since you said above, I think we have two problems here:
> 1. Should not let users care about where the hotplug info comes from.
> 2. Should not distinguish movable node and memory hotplug, since for now,
>    to use memory hotplug is to use movable node.
> 
> So how about something like "movablenode", just like "quiet" boot option.
> If users specify "movablenode", then memblock will reserve hotpluggable
> memory, and create movable nodes if any. If users specify nothing, then
> the kernel acts as before.

Maybe I'm confused but memory hotplug isn't likely to work without
this, right?  If so, wouldn't it make more sense to have
"memory_hotplug" option rather than "movablecore=acpi" which in no way
indicates that it has something to do with memory hotplug?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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