linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v9 00/31] use lmb with x86

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Date:	Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:41:19 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	michael@...erman.id.au
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v9 00/31] use lmb with x86

On 03/29/2010 03:32 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>
>> I want to keep the affects to other lmb users to minium at first.
> 
> That's a good plan, but I don't think this is the nicest way to do it.
> 
Too much to be test. so better to keep less impact to current lmb users.
>> and we can merge those functions later.
>>
>> or you insist on merging them in this patchset?
> 
> No I don't insist.
> 
> I _suggest_ that if we want to avoid affecting existing lmb users, then
> the checking logic should go into the existing API, but be #ifdef'ed for
> now - eg. CONFIG_DYNAMIC_LMB or something. That way you avoid affecting
> existing users (more or less), but you don't add a new API that you then
> have to remove later.
> 
> Having said that I don't think it really does affect existing users that
> much. We still have the statically defined region arrays, and they're
> still the same size, so sparc and powerpc should never need to resize,
> except on machines where we currently run out of space in the array
> anyway.

dynamic region array for lmb.memory and lmb.reserved, actually is only need when plan to use
lmb to replace bootmem code.

Thanks

Yinghai
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