From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch] Move swiotlb_init early on X86_64
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 02:32:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603030232.12101.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141342529.2537.11.camel@linux-znh>
On Friday 03 March 2006 00:35, Zou Nan hai wrote:
> This patch modify the bootmem allocator,
> let normal bootmem allocation on 64 bit system first go above 4G
> address.
That's very ugly and likely to break some architectures. Sorry
but #ifdefs is the wrong way to do this.
Passing a limit parameter is better and use that in the swiotlb
allocation. If you're worried about changing too many callers
you could add a new entry point.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-03 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-02 9:09 [Patch] Move swiotlb_init early on X86_64 Zhang, Yanmin
2006-03-02 23:35 ` Zou Nan hai
2006-03-03 1:32 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-03 1:59 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2006-03-01 1:10 Zou Nan hai
2006-03-02 4:15 ` Tony Luck
2006-03-02 4:30 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-02 4:33 ` Zou Nan hai
2006-03-07 8:39 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-07 23:23 ` Zou Nan hai
2006-03-08 9:33 ` Andi Kleen
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