From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755948AbYCaAuP (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:50:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754023AbYCaAuD (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:50:03 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:32353 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752960AbYCaAuC (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:50:02 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,580,1199692800"; d="scan'208";a="363098727" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked list of struct setup_data From: "Huang, Ying" To: Yinghai Lu Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, Paul Jackson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <86802c440803300115w6f3cc08cha72d3dc20bc4ec8e@mail.gmail.com> References: <1206672584.13404.25.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <86802c440803300115w6f3cc08cha72d3dc20bc4ec8e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:52:48 +0800 Message-Id: <1206924768.21451.3.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Mar 2008 00:49:36.0888 (UTC) FILETIME=[18014F80:01C892C9] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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