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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:27:52 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907011427.52943.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A4A0E50020000780000830B@vpn.id2.novell.com>

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:38:32 pm Jan Beulich wrote:
> Sizing of memory allocations shouldn't depend on the number of physical
> pages found in a system, as that generally include (perhaps a huge
> amount of) non-RAM pages. The amount of what actually is usable as
> storage should instead be used as a basis here.

I like this patch.  Where's num_physpages used after this: should it be an 
arch-specific or even a static?

FWIW: Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Thanks,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-01  4:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-30 11:08 [PATCH] replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages Jan Beulich
2009-07-01  4:57 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-07-01  6:54   ` Jan Beulich
2009-07-01  7:43 ` Amerigo Wang
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-08-18 15:34 Jan Beulich
2009-08-18 15:34 ` Jan Beulich
2009-08-18 15:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-18 15:38   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-18 15:48   ` Jan Beulich
2009-08-18 15:48     ` Jan Beulich

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