Re: [RFC][patch 0/5] Bootmem fixes

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Thu Apr 17 2008 - 05:59:30 EST


On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:36:29 +0200
Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> here are a bunch of fixes for the bootmem allocator. These are tested
> on boring x86_32 UMA hardware, but 3 patches only show their effects
> on multi-node systems, so please review and test.
>
> Only the first two patches are real code changes, the others are
> cleanups.
>
> `Node-setup agnostic free_bootmem()' assumes that all bootmem
> descriptors describe contiguous regions and bdata_list is in ascending
> order. Yinghai was unsure about this fact, Ingo could you ACK/NAK
> this?
>
Tested on ia64/NUMA box on 2.6.25. seems no problem.

Thanks,
-Kame

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