From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][patch 0/5] Bootmem fixes
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:49:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lk3ceoy0.fsf@saeurebad.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080417183639.7d3831e0.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> (KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki's message of "Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:36:39 +0900")
Hi,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> writes:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:36:29 +0200
> Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> here are a bunch of fixes for the bootmem allocator. These are tested
>> on boring x86_32 UMA hardware, but 3 patches only show their effects
>> on multi-node systems, so please review and test.
>>
>> Only the first two patches are real code changes, the others are
>> cleanups.
>>
>> `Node-setup agnostic free_bootmem()' assumes that all bootmem
>> descriptors describe contiguous regions and bdata_list is in ascending
>> order. Yinghai was unsure about this fact, Ingo could you ACK/NAK
>> this?
>>
> Tested on ia64/NUMA box on 2.6.25. seems no problem.
Cool, thanks a lot!
Hannes
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-17 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-16 11:36 Johannes Weiner
2008-04-16 11:36 ` [RFC][patch 1/5] mm: Revert "mm: fix boundary checking in free_bootmem_core" Johannes Weiner
2008-04-16 17:49 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-16 11:36 ` [RFC][patch 2/5] mm: Node-setup agnostic free_bootmem() Johannes Weiner
2008-04-16 17:54 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-16 18:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-16 18:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 19:17 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-18 5:06 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-16 19:19 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-16 11:36 ` [RFC][patch 3/5] mm: Unexport __alloc_bootmem_core() Johannes Weiner
2008-04-16 11:36 ` [RFC][patch 4/5] mm: Normalize internal argument passing of bootmem data Johannes Weiner
2008-04-16 11:36 ` [RFC][patch 5/5] mm: Move bootmem descriptors definition to a single place Johannes Weiner
2008-04-16 17:30 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-04-17 9:36 ` [RFC][patch 0/5] Bootmem fixes KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-04-17 10:49 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
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