Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:48:16 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][patch 2/5] mm: Node-setup agnostic free_bootmem() |
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* Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, it should work well with cross nodes case. > > > > but please add boundary check on free_bootmem_node too. > > also please note: it will have problem span nodes box. > > for example: node 0: 0-2g, 4-6g, node1: 2-4g, 6-8g. and if ramdisk sit > creoss 2G boundary. you will only free the range before 2g.
yes. Such systems _will_ become more common - so the "this is rare" arguments are incorrect. bootmem has to be robust enough to deal with it.
Ingo
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