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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/31] lmb: Add reserve_lmb/free_lmb
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:29:10 +1100
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On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 21:21 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> if someone want to find some area, but not going to access that range,
> then we should let them alloc it.
> 
> how about access_limit? 

No, no you don't get it. default_alloc_limit is fine. It's the -default-
limit. It doesn't apply to lmb_alloc_base() that takes an explicit
limit...

Something along those lines.

Cheers,
Ben.