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Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:16:34 +0300
From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/29] mm: remove bootmem allocator
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To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 11:15:38AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 05-09-18 18:59:15, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> [...]
> >  325 files changed, 846 insertions(+), 2478 deletions(-)
> >  delete mode 100644 include/linux/bootmem.h
> >  delete mode 100644 mm/bootmem.c
> >  delete mode 100644 mm/nobootmem.c
> 
> This is really impressive! Thanks a lot for working on this. I wish we
> could simplify the memblock API as well. There are just too many public
> functions with subtly different semantic and barely any useful
> documentation.

There are also many functions with exactly the same semantic :)

Cleaning up the memblock API would be the next step.
 
> But even this is a great step forward!
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.