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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:33:50 -0700
From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Subject: Re: [git pull] "big box" x86 changes, bootmem/sparsemem
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On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
>
>  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
>
>  > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>  >
>  >> IOW, they'd be big enough that people hopefully don't start nitpicking
>  >> about some *totally* uninteresting small detail, but small enough that
>  >> people can read it through without losing concentration about a
>  >> quarter of the way in.
>  >
>  > ok. Here's the "memory management" type of changes:
>  >
>  >    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86-bigbox-bootmem.git for-linus
>  >
>  > the other sub-trees will depend on these changes. I think these
>  > infrastructure and other improvements are mergable and pullable as-is.
>  >
>  >       Ingo
>  >
>  > ------------------>
>
>  [...]
>
>
>  >       mm: allow reserve_bootmem() cross nodes
>
>  I find it sad that this goes in now.  I wrote a clean version of
>  reserve_bootmem() [1] and it was rejected with arguments that I did not
>  understand [2] and that were not further explained even though I asked
>  for it [3].
>
>  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/16/76
>  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/16/234
>  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/16/250
>
>  Your comment was rather unfair, because it gave the impression you did
>  not read the thread before replying.  And you did not react to other
>  explicit questions from me.  If you find my patches to be crap, say so
>  and please explain WHY so I have a chance to improve.

this thread is for reserve_bootmem ?

You patch is regarding to free_bootmem, and it doesn't work with intel
cross node boxes.

YH