Re: [PATCH 14/21] x86, acpi, numa: Reserve hotpluggable memory atearly time.

[Tejun Heo]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 06:26:09AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > So how about this.
> > 1. Introduce a new global list used to store hotpluggable regions.
> > 2. On acpi side, find and fulfill the list.
> > 3. On memblock side, make the default allocation function stay away from
> >    these regions.
> 
> I was thinking more along the line of
> 
> 1. Mark hotpluggable regions with a flag in memblock.
> 2. On ACPI side, find and mark hotpluggable regions.
> 3. Make memblock avoid giving out hotpluggable regions for normal
>    allocations.

But adding new regions array is more convenient / cleaner, that's fine
too.  Those arrays are dynamically sized anyway.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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