On Wed 24-07-13 14:02:32, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 07/24/2013 12:45 PM, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > All I am saying is that I see two classes of failures: (a) Our > > inability to allocate memory to manage the memory that is being hot added > > and (b) Our inability to bring the hot added memory online within a reasonable > > amount of time. I am not sure the cause for (b) and I was just speculating that > > this could be memory related. What is interesting is that I have seen failure related > > to our inability to online the memory after having succeeded in hot adding the > > memory. > > I think we should hold off on this patch and other like it until we've > been sufficiently able to explain how (b) happens. Agreed. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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>