From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Xiao Guangrong <ericxiao.gr@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: reuse the boot-time mappings of fixed_addresses
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:29:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9C6ADF.2020707@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090831082632.GB15619@elte.hu>
On 08/31/09 01:26, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> I'm wondering, how much space do we save this way, on a typical bootup
>>> on a typical PC?
>>>
>>>
>> Not a huge lot... a few dozen pages.
>>
> I guess it's still worth doing - what do you think?
>
It hardly seems worth it, but I guess it isn't much code. Will having
an apparent overlap of vmalloc and fixmap spaces confuse anything?
J
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-01 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-23 2:35 Xiao Guangrong
2009-08-29 11:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-29 18:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-08-31 8:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-01 0:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-09-04 7:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-04 15:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-09-04 16:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-04 18:55 ` Ingo Molnar
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