linux-kernel - Re: [tip:core/percpu] bootmem: clean up arch-specific bootmem wrapping

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Message-ID: <49A4CEE1.7090003@kernel.org>
Date:	Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:53:53 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:core/percpu] bootmem: clean up arch-specific bootmem wrapping

Tejun Heo wrote:
> This patch drops the generic wrapping around alloc_bootmem_core() and
> add alloc_bootmem_core() instead.  If necessary, arch can define
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
should have been alloc_arch_preferred_bootmem()

> bootmem_arch_referred_node() macro or function which takes all
> allocation information and returns the preferred node.  bootmem
> generic code will always try the preferred node first and then
> fallback to other nodes as usual.

-- 
tejun
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