Re: another pmem variant V2

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On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 07:31:03PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> But I hope you are not ignoring my real problem. any two memmap= ranges
> will halt the boot. Specially if they are dis-contiguous.

not the case here, verified it in various cofigurations.

> Also I need the contiguous variant split into two devices because
> they might belong to two NUMA nodes. It is very hard to manage
> if a NUMA crossing is in a middle of a single pmemX device
> The way we like to configure it is that each /dev/pmem belongs to
> a single NUMA node. And in a multy device setup each CPU node
> allocates from "his" pmem device If there is space.
> (And it lets me set application affinity if need to)

The hack below ensures two separate type 12 entries stay separate,
but I'm not sure I really want this.  so far it seems like very special
hacks for your very specialized fake-pmem config.

> BTW: Will device mapper let me call ->direct_access()

Right now it doesn't, but it's not hard to add..
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