From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:27:52 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907011427.52943.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A4A0E50020000780000830B@vpn.id2.novell.com>
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:38:32 pm Jan Beulich wrote:
> Sizing of memory allocations shouldn't depend on the number of physical
> pages found in a system, as that generally include (perhaps a huge
> amount of) non-RAM pages. The amount of what actually is usable as
> storage should instead be used as a basis here.
I like this patch. Where's num_physpages used after this: should it be an
arch-specific or even a static?
FWIW: Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Thanks,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-01 4:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-30 11:08 [PATCH] replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages Jan Beulich
2009-07-01 4:57 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-07-01 6:54 ` Jan Beulich
2009-07-01 7:43 ` Amerigo Wang
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2009-08-18 15:34 Jan Beulich
2009-08-18 15:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-18 15:48 ` Jan Beulich
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