Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758963AbZKFBvz (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:51:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756183AbZKFBvy (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:51:54 -0500 Received: from sh.osrg.net ([192.16.179.4]:56911 "EHLO sh.osrg.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756076AbZKFBvy (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:51:54 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:50:04 +0900 To: mingo@elte.hu Cc: fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, joerg.roedel@amd.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, yinghai@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tj@kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, vegard.nossum@gmail.com, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] bootmem: add free_bootmem_late From: FUJITA Tomonori In-Reply-To: <20091028074832.GC19402@elte.hu> References: <1256712464-21472-1-git-send-email-fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <1256712464-21472-8-git-send-email-fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20091028074832.GC19402@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20091106104931W.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (sh.osrg.net [192.16.179.4]); Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:50:08 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1223 Lines: 25 On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:48:32 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > > From: Chris Wright > > > > Add a new function for freeing bootmem after the bootmem allocator has > > been released and the unreserved pages given to the page allocator. > > This allows us to reserve bootmem and then release it if we later > > discover it was not needed. > > > > Reviewed-by: FUJITA Tomonori > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wright > > --- > > include/linux/bootmem.h | 1 + > > mm/bootmem.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- > > 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > Hm, we are now further complicating the bootmem model. Yeah, agreed. But reorganizing the allocator during boot is not easy. I'll investigate it later on but VT-d people want to fix this IOMMU issue now. Can we accept this for now? -- 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/