Re: [PATCH 3/3] acpi, memory-hotplug: Support getting hotplug infofrom SRAT.

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Jan 25 2013 - 20:12:26 EST


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?

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