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    SubjectRe: [git pull] "big box" x86 changes, bootmem/sparsemem
    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


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