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From: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked list of struct setup_data
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:52:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1206924768.21451.3.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86802c440803300115w6f3cc08cha72d3dc20bc4ec8e@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 01:15 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
[...]
> current reserve_early will have limitation with 20 entries.
> 
> /*
>  * Early reserved memory areas.
>  */
> 
> #define MAX_EARLY_RES 20
> 
> or we need to make reserve_early a little bit smart, so it could merge
> continuous region...
> and then your free_early need to be updated too.

It is planned that the reserve_early code be replaced by e820 based
memory reservation code. So I think we can stay with current
implementation and wait for the new infrastructure.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying


      reply	other threads:[~2008-03-31  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-28  2:49 [PATCH 2/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked list of struct setup_data Huang, Ying
2008-03-30  4:25 ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-30  4:31 ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-31  0:54   ` Huang, Ying
2008-04-02  7:39     ` Paul Jackson
2008-04-02 16:39       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-02 17:36         ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-30  8:15 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-31  0:52   ` Huang, Ying [this message]

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