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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:33:50 -0700
From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To: "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@...urebad.de>
Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
"Jesse Barnes" <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull] "big box" x86 changes, bootmem/sparsemem
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de> wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
>
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> writes:
>
> > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> >> IOW, they'd be big enough that people hopefully don't start nitpicking
> >> about some *totally* uninteresting small detail, but small enough that
> >> people can read it through without losing concentration about a
> >> quarter of the way in.
> >
> > ok. Here's the "memory management" type of changes:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86-bigbox-bootmem.git for-linus
> >
> > the other sub-trees will depend on these changes. I think these
> > infrastructure and other improvements are mergable and pullable as-is.
> >
> > Ingo
> >
> > ------------------>
>
> [...]
>
>
> > mm: allow reserve_bootmem() cross nodes
>
> I find it sad that this goes in now. I wrote a clean version of
> reserve_bootmem() [1] and it was rejected with arguments that I did not
> understand [2] and that were not further explained even though I asked
> for it [3].
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/16/76
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/16/234
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/16/250
>
> Your comment was rather unfair, because it gave the impression you did
> not read the thread before replying. And you did not react to other
> explicit questions from me. If you find my patches to be crap, say so
> and please explain WHY so I have a chance to improve.
this thread is for reserve_bootmem ?
You patch is regarding to free_bootmem, and it doesn't work with intel
cross node boxes.
YH
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