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

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Thu Apr 17 2008 - 06:50:07 EST


Hi,

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

Cool, thanks a lot!

Hannes
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