[PATCH] IB/ehca: Change misleading error message
Joachim Fenkes
FENKES at de.ibm.com
Thu Nov 27 00:44:56 EST 2008
Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote on 26.11.2008 00:13:51:
> That's too bad... I applied this patch but out of curiousity, why
> doesn't the hot-remove/hot-add work? I would have thought that
> re-registering all of memory after the hot-add would do the right thing.
That's right, but right now, we simply try to register all of memory from
KERNELBASE to high_memory, which works right until we have memory holes in
the middle; then the hypervisor will reject our page registrations. Same
goes for huge (16GB) pages, by the way. We're working on a solution to
this.
Cheers,
Joachim
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