From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: William Irwin <willir@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] bootmem for 2.5
Date: 05 Nov 2001 22:23:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1005017025.897.0.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011102140207.V31822@w-wli.des.beaverton.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011102140207.V31822@w-wli.des.beaverton.ibm.com>
On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 17:02, William Irwin wrote:
> A number of people have expressed a wish to replace the bitmap-based
> bootmem allocator with one that tracks ranges explicitly. I have
> written such a replacement in order to deal with some of the situations
> I have encountered.
> [...]
The patch is without problem on 2.4.13-ac7. Free memory increased by
about 100K: free and dmesg both confirm 384292k vs 384196k. This is a
P3-733 on an i815 with 384MB. Very nice.
Note that the patch and UP-APIC do not get along. Some quick debugging
with William found the cause. APIC does indeed touch bootmem. The
above is thus obviously with CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC unset.
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-06 3:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-02 22:02 [RFC] bootmem for 2.5 William Irwin
2001-11-03 3:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
[not found] ` <20011102214308.A8217@kroah.com>
2001-11-03 19:58 ` William Lee Irwin III
2001-11-06 3:23 ` Robert Love [this message]
2001-11-06 4:10 ` William Lee Irwin III
2001-11-08 0:44 ` William Lee Irwin III
2001-11-08 2:06 ` Robert Love
2001-11-09 0:27 ` William Lee Irwin III
2001-12-15 6:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-12-15 13:27 ` William Lee Irwin III
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