Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267421AbUJGQIi (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:08:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267433AbUJGQIi (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:08:38 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-01.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.40]:59045 "EHLO ms-smtp-01-eri0.texas.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267421AbUJGQAd (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:00:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:59:10 -0500 From: Dave McCracken To: "Martin J. Bligh" cc: Hiroyuki KAMEZAWA , Linux Kernel ML , linux-mm , LHMS , Andrew Morton , William Lee Irwin III , "Luck, Tony" , Dave Hansen , Hirokazu Takahashi Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] Re: [PATCH] no buddy bitmap patch : intro and includes [0/2] Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1250100000.1097160319@[10.10.2.4]> References: <41653511.60905@jp.fujitsu.com> <1250100000.1097160319@[10.10.2.4]> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.4 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 853 Lines: 24 --On Thursday, October 07, 2004 07:45:21 -0700 "Martin J. Bligh" wrote: >> Followings are patches for removing bitmaps from buddy allocator, >> against 2.6.9-rc3. I think this version is much clearer than ones I >> posted a month ago. > ... >> If there is unclear point, please tell me. > > What was the purpose behind this, again? Sorry, has been too long since > I last looked. The memory allocator bitmaps are the main remaining reason we need the concept of linear memory. If we can get rid of them, it's one step closer to managing memory as a set of sections. Dave McCracken - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/