> and ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT is enabeld on 64b. So I guess whatever was > the reason to add this code back in 2006 is not true anymore. So I am > really wondering. Do we absolutely need to assign pages which are not > onlined yet to the ZONE_NORMAL unconditionally? Why cannot we put them > out of any zone and wait for memory online operation to put them where > requested? I don't remember any specific reason. May have just been simplification. Should be fine to use any zone. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
