RE: free bootmem feedback patch

Luck, Tony
2004-07-13T23:14:39Z

>NUMA machines with a lot of memory/nodes appear to hang when
>freeing boot memory, as it can take on the order of 4 minutes.

Isn't this a feature of the amount of memory being freed, rather
than the fact that there are many nodes? I.e. if someone has a
single node box with a few TB of memory, they'll still have the
multi-minute delay, but your patch won't give them any progress
dots.

-Tony