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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>,
	Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, "Wang, Frank" <frank.wang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Add movablecore_map boot option
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:45:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B7E594.8090106@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F1C95FC11@ORSMSX108.amr.corp.intel.com>

On 11/29/2012 02:41 PM, Luck, Tony wrote:
>> The other bit is that if you really really want high reliability, memory
>> mirroring is the way to go; it is the only way you will be able to
>> hotremove memory without having to have a pre-event to migrate the
>> memory away from the affected node before the memory is offlined.
> 
> Some platforms don't support cross-node mirrors ... but we still want to
> be able to remove a node.
> 

Yes, well, those platforms don't support that degree of "really really
high reliability", since the unannounced failure of the node controller
will bring down the system.

	-hpa


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-29 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-23 10:44 Tang Chen
2012-11-23 10:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] x86: get pg_data_t's memory from other node Tang Chen
2012-11-24  1:19   ` Jiang Liu
2012-11-26  1:19     ` Tang Chen
2012-12-02 15:11   ` Jiang Liu
2012-11-23 10:44 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] page_alloc: add movable_memmap kernel parameter Tang Chen
2012-11-23 10:44 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] page_alloc: Introduce zone_movable_limit[] to keep movable limit for nodes Tang Chen
2012-12-05 15:46   ` Jiang Liu
2012-12-06  1:20     ` Tang Chen
2012-11-23 10:44 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] page_alloc: Make movablecore_map has higher priority Tang Chen
2012-12-05 15:43   ` Jiang Liu
2012-12-06  1:26     ` Tang Chen
2012-12-06  2:26       ` Jiang Liu
2012-12-06  2:51         ` Jianguo Wu
2012-12-06  2:57           ` Tang Chen
2012-12-09  8:10         ` Tang Chen
2012-12-10  2:15           ` Jiang Liu
2012-11-23 10:44 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] page_alloc: Bootmem limit with movablecore_map Tang Chen
2012-11-26 12:22   ` wujianguo
2012-11-26 12:53     ` Tang Chen
2012-11-26 12:40   ` wujianguo
2012-11-26 13:15     ` Tang Chen
2012-11-26 15:48       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-27  0:58         ` Jianguo Wu
2012-11-27  3:19           ` Wen Congyang
2012-11-27  3:22             ` Jianguo Wu
2012-11-27  3:34               ` Wen Congyang
2012-11-27  1:12         ` Jiang Liu
2012-11-27  1:20           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-27  3:15         ` Wen Congyang
2012-11-27  5:31           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-06 17:28             ` Jiang Liu
2012-12-06 17:41               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-07  0:18                 ` Jiang Liu
2012-12-19  9:17     ` Tang Chen
2012-11-27  3:10 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Add movablecore_map boot option wujianguo
2012-11-27  5:43   ` Tang Chen
2012-11-27  6:20     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-27  6:47     ` Jianguo Wu
2012-11-28  3:47   ` Tang Chen
2012-11-28  4:01     ` Jiang Liu
2012-11-28  5:21       ` Wen Congyang
2012-11-28  5:17         ` Jiang Liu
2012-11-28  4:53     ` Jianguo Wu
2012-11-27  8:00 ` Bob Liu
2012-11-27  8:29   ` Tang Chen
2012-11-27  8:49     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-27  9:47       ` Wen Congyang
2012-11-27  9:53         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-27  9:59       ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-11-27 12:09     ` Bob Liu
2012-11-27 12:49       ` Tang Chen
2012-11-28  3:24         ` Bob Liu
2012-11-28  4:08           ` Jiang Liu
2012-11-28  6:16             ` Tang Chen
2012-11-28  7:03               ` Jiang Liu
2012-11-28  8:29             ` Wen Congyang
2012-11-28  8:28               ` Jiang Liu
2012-11-28  8:38                 ` Wen Congyang
2012-11-29  0:43               ` Jaegeuk Hanse
2012-11-29  1:24                 ` Tang Chen
2012-11-30  9:20             ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-11-28  8:47 ` Jiang Liu
2012-11-28 21:34   ` Luck, Tony
2012-11-28 21:38     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-29 11:00       ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-29 16:07         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-29 22:41           ` Luck, Tony
2012-11-29 22:45             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-11-30  2:56         ` Jiang Liu
2012-11-30  3:15           ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-11-30 15:36             ` Jiang Liu
2012-11-30  2:58         ` Luck, Tony
2012-11-30  3:28           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-30 10:19           ` Glauber Costa
2012-11-30 10:52           ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-29 10:38     ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-11-29 11:05       ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-29 15:47       ` Jiang Liu
2012-11-29 15:53       ` Jiang Liu
2012-11-29  1:42   ` Jaegeuk Hanse
2012-11-29  2:25     ` Jiang Liu
2012-11-29  2:49       ` Wanpeng Li
2012-11-29  2:49       ` Wanpeng Li
2012-11-29  2:59         ` Jiang Liu
2012-11-30 22:27       ` Toshi Kani

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