Re: [PATCH 06/20] early_res: seperate common memmap func from e820.cto fw_memmap.cy

[Yinghai Lu]

On 03/22/2010 12:37 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Ingo,
>>
>> On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>
>>> ( Cc:-ed Andrew and Linus as this is a general design/policy matter wrt. 
>>>   memory management. )
>>>
>>> * David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:28:38 -0700
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That action means you absolutely don't value our feedback at all.
>>>>>
>>>>> [PATCH 01/20] x86: add find_e820_area_node
>>>>> is addressing your concern that early_res didn't handle memory cross the nodes problem.
>>>>
>>>> Now I know that you _REALLY_ aren't listening to us.
>>
>>> [ He has done a bit more than just to simply listen: he seems to
>>> have written a patch which he thinks is addressing the concerns you
>>> pointed out. It might not be the response you wished for (and it
>>> might be inadequate) for but it sure gives me the impression of him
>>> listening to you - unless by 'listening' you mean 'follow my exact
>>> opinion without argument'. ]
>>
>> I tend to disagree. Fixing the bug pointed out by Dave is not really a
>> good argument about listening.
>>
>> The main point is that there is still no answer why lmb cannot be used and 
>> the reposted patch still is a full move of the x86 e820 functions into 
>> kernel/fw_memmap.c.
>>
>> That's not a generalization, that's simply a relocation of x86 code to 
>> kernel/. And I agree with Dave and Ben that this is an useless exercise.
> 
> ok - i think you are right. Yinghai, mind having a look at using lib/lmb.c for 
> all this?

1. need to keep e820
2. use e820 range with RAM to fill lmb.memory when finizing_e820
3. use lmb.reserved to replace early_res.

current lmb is merging the region, we can not use name tag any more.

may need to dump early_memtest, and use early_res for bootmem at first.

YH
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