Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946134Ab3FUVaa (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:30:30 -0400 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.179.30]:36172 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946079Ab3FUVa3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:30:29 -0400 Message-ID: <51C4C5F3.3050800@sgi.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:30:27 -0700 From: Mike Travis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Yinghai Lu , "H. Peter Anvin" , Nathan Zimmer , Robin Holt , Rob Landley , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , the arch/x86 maintainers , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] Delay initializing of large sections of memory References: <1371831934-156971-1-git-send-email-nzimmer@sgi.com> <20130621165142.GA32125@kroah.com> <51C48745.9030304@zytor.com> <20130621185056.GA23473@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20130621185056.GA23473@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1171 Lines: 32 On 6/21/2013 11:50 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:44:22AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:03 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> On 06/21/2013 09:51 AM, Greg KH wrote: >>> >>> I suspect the cutoff for this should be a lot lower than 8 TB even, more >>> like 128 GB or so. The only concern is to not set the cutoff so low >>> that we can end up running out of memory or with suboptimal NUMA >>> placement just because of this. >> >> I would suggest another way: >> only boot the system with boot node (include cpu, ram and pci root buses). >> then after boot, could add other nodes. > > What exactly do you mean by "after boot"? Often, the boot process of > userspace needs those additional cpus and ram in order to initialize > everything (like the pci devices) properly. Exactly. That's why I left both low and high memory on each node. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/