From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] x86: move range related operation to one file
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:26:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B2BF38F.3090101@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B2BE348.207@kernel.org>
On 12/18/2009 12:17 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> yes here is we have [start, end] instead of [start, end)
>
> those range operation is used for one purpose:
> add several ranges, and subtract some other ranges, it will take out overlap between those two sets.
> and leave out the range that could be used.
>
> and it is array based...for early stage.
>
Yes. We should be able to use the *exact same code* for the e820
ranges, using the e820 attribute as the attribute parameters, and a
simple boolean for the case where all you want is inclusion/exclusion.
And yes, I agree array based is the right thing to do for the early code.
Note that my array-based version only had an insert operation, no delete
operation -- that is because the delete operation is simply an insert
operation of attribute 0.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-18 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-12-18 9:46 ` [PATCH 1/9] x86: move range related operation to one file Yinghai Lu
2009-12-18 20:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-18 20:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-12-18 21:26 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-12-18 23:47 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-12-19 0:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-19 0:27 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-12-19 0:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-18 9:46 ` [PATCH 2/9] x86: check range in update range Yinghai Lu
2009-12-18 17:23 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-12-18 19:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-12-18 9:47 ` [PATCH 3/9] x86: call early_res_to_bootmem one time Yinghai Lu
2009-12-18 9:47 ` [PATCH 4/9] x86: introduce max_early_res and early_res_count Yinghai Lu
2009-12-18 9:47 ` [PATCH 5/9] x86: dynamic increase early_res array size -v2 Yinghai Lu
2009-12-18 9:47 ` [PATCH 6/9] x86: print bootmem free before pci_iommu_alloc and free_all_bootmem -v2 Yinghai Lu
2009-12-18 9:48 ` [PATCH 7/9] x86: make early_node_mem get mem > 4g if possible -v2 Yinghai Lu
2009-12-18 9:48 ` [PATCH 8/9] x86: only call dma32_reserve_bootmem 64bit !CONFIG_NUMA Yinghai Lu
2009-12-18 9:48 ` [PATCH 9/9] x86: make 64 bit use early_res instead of bootmem before slab Yinghai Lu
2009-12-20 9:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] sparsemem: put usemap for one node together Yinghai Lu
2009-12-20 9:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] sparsemem: put mem map " Yinghai Lu
2009-12-28 8:35 ` Ingo Molnar
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