linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] alpha: switch to NO

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Message-ID: <20180627113851.GP32348@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Wed, 27 Jun 2018 13:38:51 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
        Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
        linux-alpha <linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alpha: switch to NO_BOOTMEM

On Wed 27-06-18 14:32:48, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Replace bootmem allocator with memblock and enable use of NO_BOOTMEM like
> on most other architectures.
> 
> The conversion does not take care of NUMA support which is marked broken
> for more than 10 years now.

It would be great to describe how is the conversion done. At least on
high level.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs