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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/21] mm: introduce Designated Movable Blocks
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To:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
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From:   Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
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On 9/14/2022 6:21 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 2:57 PM Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> MOTIVATION:
>> Some Broadcom devices (e.g. 7445, 7278) contain multiple memory
>> controllers with each mapped in a different address range within
>> a Uniform Memory Architecture. Some users of these systems have
>> expressed the desire to locate ZONE_MOVABLE memory on each
>> memory controller to allow user space intensive processing to
>> make better use of the additional memory bandwidth.
>> Unfortunately, the historical monotonic layout of zones would
>> mean that if the lowest addressed memory controller contains
>> ZONE_MOVABLE memory then all of the memory available from
>> memory controllers at higher addresses must also be in the
>> ZONE_MOVABLE zone. This would force all kernel memory accesses
>> onto the lowest addressed memory controller and significantly
>> reduce the amount of memory available for non-movable
>> allocations.
> 
> Why are you sending kernel patches to the Devicetree specification list?
> 
> Rob
My apologies if this is a problem. No offense was intended.

My process has been to run my patches through get_maintainers.pl to get 
the list of addresses to copy on submissions and my 
0016-dt-bindings-reserved-memory-introduce-designated-mov.patch 
solicited the
'- <devicetree-spec@vger.kernel.org>' address.

My preference when reviewing is to receive an entire patch set to 
understand the context of an individual commit, but I can certainly 
understand that others may have different preferences.

It was my understanding that the Devicetree specification list was part 
of the kernel (e.g. @vger.kernel.org) and would be willing to receive 
patches that might be of relevance to it.

I am inexperienced with yaml and devicetree processes in general so I 
have tried to lean on the examples of other reserved-memory node 
bindings for help.

There is much to learn and I am happy to modify my process to better 
accommodate your needs.

Regards,
     Doug