linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v18 00/37] Use lmb with x86

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:43:49 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v18 00/37] Use lmb with x86

On 06/16/2010 01:41 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 23:10 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Tuesday, June 15, 2010, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>  46 files changed, 1476 insertions(+), 1282 deletions(-)
>>
>> So what was the advantage again? It's adding more lines than it
>> removes. Wasn't the point to simplify things, not make them bigger?
> 
> I -think- the point is that once that's done, you can remove a whole lot
> of gunk that was added such as the kernel/range.c caca, etc...
> (basically, x86 gunk gratuituously made generic and that should really
> just die instead).

right.

this patch include seperate bootmem.c into bootmem.c and nobootmem.c to reduce
MACRO according Ingo and others.
 mm/bootmem.c                    |  165 +----------
 mm/nobootmem.c                  |  415 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++

later will
1. remove x86 own copy for find_from_low_to_high after more testing with high to low. that is about 200 lines code.
2. replace range.c with lmb. but need to expand lmb little bit
   like add can_resize and can_merge to be attribute of lmb_type.

Thanks

Yinghai Lu
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