Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Dec 2001 07:05:45 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] bootmem for 2.5 |
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On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, William Irwin wrote:
> [...] According to testing, this patch appears to save somewhere > between 8KB and 2MB on i386 PC's versus the bitmap-based bootmem > allocator.
exactly where do these savings come from? The bootmem allocator frees its bitmaps in free_all_bootmem().
Ingo
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