Re: [PATCH v5 00/10] mm: Sub-section memory hotplug support

[Jeff Moyer]

Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> > and I would like to know that you are
>> > not just shifting the problem to a smaller unit and a new/creative HW
>> > will force us to go even more complicated.
>> 
>> HW will not do this to us. It's software that has the problem.
>> Namespace creation is unnecessarily constrained to 128MB alignment.
>
> And why is that a problem? A lack of documentation that this is a
> requirement? Something will not work with a larger alignment? Someting
> else?

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Cheers,
Jeff