On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 09:45:21AM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 01:02:45PM +1000, David Gibson wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 11:55:38AM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: > > > The new property ibm,dynamic-memory-v2 allows memory to be represented > > > in a more compact manner in device tree. > > > > I still need to look at this in more detail, but to start with: > > what's the rationale for this new format? > > > > It's more compact, but why do we care? The embedded people always > > whinge about the size of the deivce tree, but I didn't think that was > > really a concern with PAPR. > > Here's a real example of how this has affected us earlier: > > SLOF's CAS FDT buffer size was initially 32K, was changed to 64k to > support 1TB guest memory and again changed to 2MB to support 16TB guest > memory.
Ah.. I hadn't thought of the CAS buffer, that's a legitimate concern.
> With ibm,dynamic-memory-v2 we are less likely to hit such scenarios.
>
> Also, theoretically it should be more efficient in the guest kernel
> to handle LMB-sets than individual LMBs.
>
> We aren't there yet, but I believe grouping of LMBs should eventually
> help us do memory hotplug at set (or DIMM) granularity than at individual
> LMB granularity (Again theoretical possibility)
Ok, sounds like it might be useful.
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