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We should start thinking about how a new v2 api should > look like. I am not sure how that should look like but I believe we > should be able to express a "device" as whole rather than having a very > loosely bound generic memblocks. Anyway this is likely for a longer > discussion and a long term plan rather than addressing this particular > issue. We have that concept with memory groups in the kernel already. In dax/kmem we register a static memory group. It will be considered one union. > >> One way to tackle this would be update the ratio every time a new CXL >> card gets inserted, but this seems suboptimal. > > I do not think this is a usable interface. > >> Another way is that since CXL memory works with selfhosted memmap, we could relax >> the check when 'auto-movable' and only look at the ratio if we aren't >> working with selfhosted memmap. > > This is likely the only choice we have with the current interface. We > either need a way to disable the ratio altogether or make it more > automagic and treat self hosted memory differently because that memory > doesn't eat up ZONE_NORMAL memory and therefore cannot deplete it for > ZONE_MOVABLE. daxctl wants to online memory itself. We want to keep that memory offline from a kernel perspective and let daxctl handle it in this case. We have that problem in RHEL where we currently require user space to disable udev rules so daxctl "can win". -- Cheers, David / dhildenb