* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/12/2009 11:36 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > Physical constraints to allocations (which this is) should be expressed > > early and with high priority, to make sure they can be met. > > > > Indeed, and in this case this means before bootmem allocator initialization. The other advantage of Yinghai's patch is that it removes a bootmem usage from x86, which moves us a bit forward on the road to remove the bootmem allocator altogether and go from early allocators to slab straight away. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
