[PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Increase memory block size to 1GB on radix
Anton Blanchard
anton at ozlabs.org
Thu Sep 7 15:17:41 AEST 2017
Hi,
> There is a similar issue being worked on w.r.t pseries.
>
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502357028-27465-1-git-send-email-bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com
>
> The question is should we map these regions ? ie, we need to tell the
> kernel memory region that we would like to hot unplug later so that
> we avoid doing kernel allocations from that. If we do that, then we
> can possibly map them via 2M size ?
But all of memory on PowerNV should be able to be hot unplugged, so
there are two options as I see it - either increase the memory block
size, or map everything with 2MB pages.
Anton
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