From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:59:10 -0500 From: Dave McCracken Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] Re: [PATCH] no buddy bitmap patch : intro and includes [0/2] Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1250100000.1097160319@[10.10.2.4]> References: <41653511.60905@jp.fujitsu.com> <1250100000.1097160319@[10.10.2.4]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Hiroyuki KAMEZAWA , Linux Kernel ML , linux-mm , LHMS , Andrew Morton , William Lee Irwin III , "Luck, Tony" , Dave Hansen , Hirokazu Takahashi List-ID: --On Thursday, October 07, 2004 07:45:21 -0700 "Martin J. Bligh" wrote: >> Followings are patches for removing bitmaps from buddy allocator, >> against 2.6.9-rc3. I think this version is much clearer than ones I >> posted a month ago. > ... >> If there is unclear point, please tell me. > > What was the purpose behind this, again? Sorry, has been too long since > I last looked. The memory allocator bitmaps are the main remaining reason we need the concept of linear memory. If we can get rid of them, it's one step closer to managing memory as a set of sections. Dave McCracken -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org