RE: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: base: memory: Export symbols for onliningmemory blocks

[KY Srinivasan]

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> From: Dave Hansen [mailto:dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:28 AM
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: base: memory: Export symbols for onlining
> memory blocks
> 
> On 07/23/2013 07:52 AM, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> >  The current scheme of involving user
> > level code to close this loop obviously does not perform well under high
> memory pressure.
> 
> Adding memory usually requires allocating some large, contiguous areas
> of memory for use as mem_map[] and other VM structures.  That's really
> hard to do under heavy memory pressure.  How are you accomplishing this?

I cannot avoid failures because of lack of memory. In this case I notify the host of
the failure and also tag the failure as transient. Host retries the operation after some
delay. There is no guarantee it will succeed though.

K. Y
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