On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 2:57 PM Doug Berger <opendmb@xxxxxxxxx> 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
