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From: KY Srinivasan To: Dave Hansen CC: Michal Hocko , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" , "olaf@aepfle.de" , "apw@canonical.com" , "andi@firstfloor.org" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com" , "hannes@cmpxchg.org" , "yinghan@google.com" , "jasowang@redhat.com" , "kay@vrfy.org" Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: base: memory: Export symbols for onlining memory blocks Thread-Topic: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: base: memory: Export symbols for onlining memory blocks Thread-Index: AQHOhLBUexA6H+ozR02R0nup8ZuRHJlwpwQAgAGspICAABWHgIAABmSQ Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:54:10 +0000 Message-ID: <3318be0a96cb4d05838d76dc9d088cc0@SN2PR03MB061.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> References: <1374261785-1615-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <20130722123716.GB24400@dhcp22.suse.cz> <51EEA11D.4030007@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <51EEA11D.4030007@intel.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [173.61.119.57] x-forefront-prvs: 0916FC3A18 Content-Type: text/plain; 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gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > devel@linuxdriverproject.org; olaf@aepfle.de; apw@canonical.com; > andi@firstfloor.org; akpm@linux-foundation.org; linux-mm@kvack.org; > kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com; hannes@cmpxchg.org; yinghan@google.com; > jasowang@redhat.com; kay@vrfy.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: base: memory: Export symbols for onlining > memory blocks > > On 07/23/2013 07:52 AM, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > The current scheme of involving user > > level code to close this loop obviously does not perform well under high > memory pressure. > > Adding memory usually requires allocating some large, contiguous areas > of memory for use as mem_map[] and other VM structures. That's really > hard to do under heavy memory pressure. How are you accomplishing this? I cannot avoid failures because of lack of memory. In this case I notify the host of the failure and also tag the failure as transient. Host retries the operation after some delay. There is no guarantee it will succeed though. K. Y > > > -- 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/