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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:01:54 -0700 From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com> Cc: Bob Picco <bpicco@...hat.com>, Brian Bloniarz <phunge0@...mail.com>, Charles Butterfield <charles.butterfield@...tcentury.com>, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@....utfsm.cl>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Stefan Becker <chemobejk@...il.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara@...onical.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] x86: allocate space within a region top-down On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:18:52 -0600 Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com> wrote: > > Request that allocate_resource() use available space from high addresses > first, rather than the default of using low addresses first. > > The most common place this makes a difference is when we move or assign > new PCI device resources. Low addresses are generally scarce, so it's > better to use high addresses when possible. This follows Windows practice > for PCI allocation. Applied this series to linux-next; assuming nothing blows up I'll send it to Linus this week (previous versions got some testing and landed in a separate branch so this should be fine). -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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