> 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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>