On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 10:41:42 +0200 Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue 11-04-17 10:01:52, Igor Mammedov wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:56:39 +0200 > > Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org> wrote: > [...] > > > > #echo online_kernel > memory32/state > > > > write error: Invalid argument > > > > // that's not what's expected > > > > > > this is proper behavior with the current implementation. Does anything > > > depend on the zone reusing? > > if we didn't have zone imbalance issue in design, > > the it wouldn't matter but as it stands it's not > > minore issue. > > > > Consider following, > > one hotplugs some memory and onlines it as movable, > > then one needs to hotplug some more but to do so > > one one needs more memory from zone NORMAL and to keep > > zone balance some memory in MOVABLE should be reonlined > > as NORMAL > > Is this something that we absolutely have to have right _now_? Or are you > OK if I address this in follow up series? Because it will make the > current code slightly more complex and to be honest I would rather like > to see this "core" merge and build more on top. It's fine by me to do it on top.