linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] initramfs: Support initrd that is bigger then 2G.

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Date:	Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:03:54 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
	"Daniel M. Weeks" <dan@...weeks.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] initramfs: Support initrd that is bigger then 2G.

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:07 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>
> For each of those transfers, we don't free the source memory until the
> very end.  We could free that memory as we process the input, requiring
> less total memory.

Yes, that would be nice enhancement.

Yinghai
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