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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] bootmem2 III
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Hi Andi,

Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> writes:

> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 05:17:13PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>> here is bootmem2, a memory block-oriented boot time allocator.
>>
>> Recent NUMA topologies broke the current bootmem's assumption that
>> memory nodes provide non-overlapping and contiguous ranges of pages.
>
> I'm still not sure that's a really good rationale for bootmem2.
> e.g. the non continuous nodes are really special cases and there tends
> to be enough memory at the beginning which is enough for boot time
> use, so for those systems it would be quite reasonably to only
> put the continuous starts of the nodes into bootmem.

Hm, that would put the logic into arch-code. I have no strong opinion
about it.

> That said the bootmem code has gotten a little crufty and a clean
> rewrite might be a good idea.

I agree completely.

Hannes


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