linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][patch 0/5] Bootmem fixes

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Date:	Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:49:27 +0200
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][patch 0/5] Bootmem fixes

Hi,

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> writes:

> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:36:29 +0200
> Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de> 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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