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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][patch 2/5] mm: Node-setup agnostic free_bootmem()
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:48:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080416184816.GA4400@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86802c440804161144id4f2a68i37513ac0428c693@mail.gmail.com>

* Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:

> >  Yes, it should work well with cross nodes case.
> >
> >  but please add boundary check on free_bootmem_node too.
> 
> also please note: it will have problem span nodes box.
> 
> for example: node 0: 0-2g, 4-6g, node1: 2-4g, 6-8g. and if ramdisk sit 
> creoss 2G boundary. you will only free the range before 2g.

yes. Such systems _will_ become more common - so the "this is rare" 
arguments are incorrect. bootmem has to be robust enough to deal with 
it.

	Ingo

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-16 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-16 11:36 [RFC][patch 0/5] Bootmem fixes Johannes Weiner
2008-04-16 11:36 ` [RFC][patch 1/5] mm: Revert "mm: fix boundary checking in free_bootmem_core" Johannes Weiner
2008-04-16 17:49   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-16 11:36 ` [RFC][patch 2/5] mm: Node-setup agnostic free_bootmem() Johannes Weiner
2008-04-16 17:54   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-16 18:44     ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-16 18:48       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-04-16 19:17         ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-18  5:06           ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-16 19:19     ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-16 11:36 ` [RFC][patch 3/5] mm: Unexport __alloc_bootmem_core() Johannes Weiner
2008-04-16 11:36 ` [RFC][patch 4/5] mm: Normalize internal argument passing of bootmem data Johannes Weiner
2008-04-16 11:36 ` [RFC][patch 5/5] mm: Move bootmem descriptors definition to a single place Johannes Weiner
2008-04-16 17:30   ` Ralf Baechle
2008-04-17  9:36 ` [RFC][patch 0/5] Bootmem fixes KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-04-17 10:49   ` Johannes Weiner

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