why is memory hotplug disabled in f17+

Roman Kagan rkagan at mail.ru
Tue Nov 20 13:43:16 UTC 2012


As I found out recently, memory hotplug is disabled in f17 and f18
kernels (but not in f16).

Can anybody please recall the reason for that?
The commit doing that is not particularly enlightening:

commit 2ee9f1482920f6d831eb6d70458bd0988394982b
Author: Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 13 17:33:51 2012 -0500

    Disable memory hotplug on x86-64


I'd like to propose to re-enable it but I'm trying to figure out why
it was disabled in the first place.

Thanks,
Roman.


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