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Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 07:37:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC no patch yet] bootmem2: Another try
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On Wed, 7 May 2008, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> 
> Bootmem2 is block-oriented where a block represents a contiguous range
> of physical memory.  Every block has a bitmap that keeps track of the
> pages on it.

Yes, that one sounds fairly sane.

		Linus