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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:09:14 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] support for broken memory modules (BadRAM)
From: Craig Bergstrom <craigb@google.com>
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
>> I don't think it makes sense to handle something like that with a list.
>> The compact representation currently in badram is great for that.
>
> I'd tend to agree here. ?Rick has made a convincing argument that there
> are significant numbers of real world cases where a defective row/column
> in a DIMM results in a predictable pattern of errors. ?The ball is now
> in Google's court to take a look at their systems that have high numbers
> of errors to see if they can actually be described by a small number
> of BadRAM patterns as Rick has claimed.
>

Hi All,

We (Google) are working on a data-driven answer for this question.  I
know that there has been some analysis on this topic on the past, but
I don't want to speculate until we've had some time to put all the
pieces together.  Stay tuned for specifics.

Cheers,
CraigB


> -Tony
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