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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 16:24:44 +0200
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce memory block types
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On Wed 03-10-18 15:52:24, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
[...]
> > As David said some of the memory cannot be onlined without further steps
> > (e.g. when it is standby as David called it) and then I fail to see how
> > eBPF help in any way.
> 
> and also, we can fight till the end of days here trying to come up with
> an onlining solution which would work for everyone and eBPF would move
> this decision to distro level.

The point is that there is _no_ general onlining solution. This is
basically policy which belongs to the userspace.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs