linux-kernel - Re: [patch 10/10] mm: remove sparsemem allocation details from the bootmem allocator

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Date:	Mon, 7 May 2012 11:19:41 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Gavin Shan <shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 10/10] mm: remove sparsemem allocation details from the
 bootmem allocator

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 01:37:52PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> alloc_bootmem_section() derives allocation area constraints from the
> specified sparsemem section.  This is a bit specific for a generic
> memory allocator like bootmem, though, so move it over to sparsemem.
> 
> As __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() already retries failed allocations
> with relaxed area constraints, the fallback code in sparsemem.c can be
> removed and the code becomes a bit more compact overall.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>

For 03-10

 Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

Thanks for doing this.  While at it, maybe we can clear up the naming
mess there?  I don't hate __s too much but the bootmem allocator
brings it to a whole new level.  :(

-- 
tejun
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