Re: [7/7,v8] NUMA Hotplug Emulator: Implement per-node add_memorydebugfs interface

From: David Rientjes
Date: Fri Dec 10 2010 - 18:30:56 EST


On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Shaohui Zheng wrote:

> > That doesn't address the question. My question is whether or not adding
> > memory to a memoryless node in this way transitions its state to
> > N_HIGH_MEMORY in the VM?
> I guess that you are talking about memory hotplug on x86_32, memory hotplug is
> NOT supported well for x86_32, and the function add_memory does not consider
> this situlation.
>
> For 64bit, N_HIGH_MEMORY == N_NORMAL_MEMORY, so we need not to do the transition.
>

One more time :) Memoryless nodes do not have their bit set in
N_HIGH_MEMORY. When memory is added to a memoryless node with this new
interface, does the bit get set?
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