From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Weirdness in __alloc_bootmem_node_high
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:07:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE9FiQXvZ4eSCwMSG2H7CC6suQe37TmQpmOEKW_082W3zz-6Fw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120417173203.GA32482@tiehlicka.suse.cz>
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Tue 17-04-12 10:12:30, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> We are not using bootmem with x86 now, so could remove those workaround now.
>
> Could you be more specific about what the workaround is used for?
Don't bootmem allocating too low to use up all low memory. like for
system with lots of memory for sparse vmemmap.
when nobootmem.c is used, __alloc_bootmem_node_high is the same as
__alloc_bootmem_node.
Thanks
Yinghai
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-17 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-17 15:55 Michal Hocko
2012-04-17 17:12 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-04-17 17:32 ` Michal Hocko
2012-04-17 18:07 ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2012-04-17 18:30 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-17 21:33 ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-19 12:50 ` Michal Hocko
2012-04-20 18:29 ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-20 19:14 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-20 19:29 ` Michal Hocko
2012-04-20 19:32 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-04-20 19:41 ` Michal Hocko
2012-04-20 19:30 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-04-20 19:43 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-22 19:22 ` David Miller
2012-04-22 20:05 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-23 2:00 ` David Miller
2012-04-23 5:12 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-24 6:32 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-24 7:00 ` David Miller
2012-04-27 3:32 ` David Miller
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