On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 05:58:09PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> Another reason is in case ,high we will need automatically reserve a
> region in low area for swiotlb. So for example one use
> crashkernel=256M,high, actual reserved memory is 256M above 4G and
> another 256M under 4G for swiotlb. Normally it is not necessary for
> most people. Thus we can not make ,high as default.
And how is the poor user to figure out that we decided for her/him that
swiotlb reservation is something not necessary for most people and thus
we fail the crashkernel= reservation?
IOW, that "logic" above doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me from
user friendliness perspective.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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