linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/31] lmb: Add reserve_lmb/free

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Date:	Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:40:28 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
CC:	michael@...erman.id.au, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/31] lmb: Add reserve_lmb/free_lmb

On 03/29/2010 10:29 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 21:21 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> if someone want to find some area, but not going to access that range,
>> then we should let them alloc it.
>>
>> how about access_limit? 
> 
> No, no you don't get it. default_alloc_limit is fine. It's the -default-
> limit. It doesn't apply to lmb_alloc_base() that takes an explicit
> limit...
> 
fine, will use default_limit.

Yinghai
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