linux-kernel - Re: [RFC no patch yet] bootmem2: Another try

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805070737100.32269@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 7 May 2008 07:37:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC no patch yet] bootmem2: Another try



On Wed, 7 May 2008, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> 
> Bootmem2 is block-oriented where a block represents a contiguous range
> of physical memory.  Every block has a bitmap that keeps track of the
> pages on it.

Yes, that one sounds fairly sane.

		Linus
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