From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 07:37:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC no patch yet] bootmem2: Another try In-Reply-To: <87ve1qcn6n.fsf@saeurebad.de> Message-ID: References: <20080505095938.326928514@symbol.fehenstaub.lan> <87ve1qcn6n.fsf@saeurebad.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Johannes Weiner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Yinghai Lu , Andrew Morton , Yasunori Goto List-ID: On Wed, 7 May 2008, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > Bootmem2 is block-oriented where a block represents a contiguous range > of physical memory. Every block has a bitmap that keeps track of the > pages on it. Yes, that one sounds fairly sane. Linus -- 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: email@kvack.org