Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:52:02 +0800
From: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
To: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, e820 disable ACPI Memory Hotplug if memory
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On 01/13/14 at 06:09pm, Toshi Kani wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 16:53 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > On 01/13/2014 04:33 PM, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > > 
> > > I do not think it makes sense.  You needed memmap=exactmap as a
> > > workaround because the kernel did not boot with the firmware's memory
> > > info.  So, it's broken, and you requested the kernel to ignore the
> > > firmware info.
> > > 
> > > Why do you think memory hotplug needs to be supported under such
> > > condition, which has to use the broken firmware info?
> > > 
> > 
> > Even more than memory hotplug: what do we do with NUMA?  Since we have
> > already told the kernel "the firmware is bogus" it would seem that any
> > NUMA optimizations would be a bit ... cantankerous at best, no?
> 
> Agreed that NUMA info can be bogus in this case, but is probably not
> critical.
> 
> In majority of the cases, memmap=exactmap is used for kdump and the
> firmware info is sane.  So, I think we should keep NUMA enabled since it
> could be useful when multiple CPUs are enabled for kdump.

In Fedora kdump, we by default add numa=off to 2nd kernel cmdline because
enabling numa will use a lot more memory, at the same time we have only 128M
reserved by default..

Thanks
Dave
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