Re: DRAM unreliable under specific access patern

From: One Thousand Gnomes
Date: Mon Jan 05 2015 - 14:23:45 EST


> In the meantime, I created test that actually uses physical memory,
> 8MB apart, as described in some footnote. It is attached. It should
> work, but it needs boot with specific config options and specific
> kernel parameters.

Why not just use hugepages. You know the alignment guarantees for 1GB
pages and that means you don't even need to be root

In fact - should we be disabling 1GB huge page support by default at this
point, at least on non ECC boxes ?

Alan
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