Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:13:31 -0800 | From | Yinghai Lu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -v2 0/25] x86: use early_res instead of bootmem before slab |
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On 01/04/2010 09:48 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote: > >> From: "Yinghai Lu <yingai@kernrel.org>" >> >> please check the patches regarding with early_res and bootmem >> >> and at last it will make use early_res instead of bootmem with x86 64bits >> >> the first two are needed for some amd_bus.c/intel_bus.c cleaning up patches too. >> so put other x86/pci related into this series >> hope that is ok to Jesse. >> >> -v2: allocate vmemmap on one node together, and also seperate early_res > > The point of this patchset is what? > > Avoid use of bootmem altogether by x86 bootstrap? If so why? >
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0910.3/01432.html
YH
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