On 01/25/2013 05:12 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:42:09 +0800 > Tang Chen <tangchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> NOTE: Using this way will cause NUMA performance down because the whole node >> will be set as ZONE_MOVABLE, and kernel cannot use memory on it. >> If users don't want to lose NUMA performance, just don't use it. > > I agree with this, but it means that nobody will test any of your new code. > > To get improved testing coverage, can you think of any temporary > testing-only patch which will cause testers to exercise the > memory-hotplug changes? > There is another problem: if ALL the nodes in the system support hotpluggable memory, what happens? -hpa -- 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>