Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] mm, memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from hotadded memory

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 08-08-17 13:01:36, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 12:00 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Any comments? Especially for the arch specific? Has anybody had a chance
> > to test this? I do not want to rush this but I would be really glag if
> > we could push this work in 4.14 merge window.
> 
> Hi Michal,
> 
> I'm interested in taking a look at this especially if we might be able
> to get rid of vmem_altmap, but this is currently stuck behind some
> other work in my queue. I'll try to circle back in the next couple
> weeks.

Well, vmem_altmap was there and easy to reuse. Replacing with something
else is certainly possible but I really need something to hook a
dedicated allocator into vmemmap code.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs