Re: Weirdness in __alloc_bootmem_node_high

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:07:10AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue 17-04-12 10:12:30, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >>
> >> We are not using bootmem with x86 now, so could remove those workaround now.
> >
> > Could you be more specific about what the workaround is used for?
> 
> Don't bootmem allocating too low to use up all low memory. like for
> system with lots of memory for sparse vmemmap.
> 
> when nobootmem.c is used, __alloc_bootmem_node_high is the same as
> __alloc_bootmem_node.

It would be nice if someone familiar with the memblock/bootmem
internals could cleans up the leftovers from the migration
of x86 to memblock / nobootmem.

This would be less to be confused about when other migrate to
use memblock.

	Sam
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