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Message-ID: <4B4259FB.1000804@kernel.org>
Date:	Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:13:31 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	"Yinghai Lu <yingai@...nrel.org>"@hera.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 0/25] x86: use early_res instead of bootmem before
 slab

On 01/04/2010 09:48 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
>> From: "Yinghai Lu <yingai@...nrel.org>"
>>
>> please check the patches regarding with early_res and bootmem
>>
>> and at last it will make use early_res instead of bootmem with x86 64bits
>>
>> the first two are needed for some amd_bus.c/intel_bus.c cleaning up patches too.
>> so put other x86/pci related into this series
>> hope that is ok to Jesse.
>>
>> -v2: allocate vmemmap on one node together, and also seperate early_res
> 
> The point of this patchset is what?
> 
> Avoid use of bootmem altogether by x86 bootstrap? If so why?
> 

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0910.3/01432.html

YH
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