Re: [Lhms-devel] Re: [RFC] free_area[] bitmap elimination [0/3]
From: William Lee Irwin III <hidden>
Date: 2004-08-21 05:21:16
From: William Lee Irwin III <hidden>
Date: 2004-08-21 05:21:16
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 01:56:24PM +0900, Hirokazu Takahashi wrote:
I also impressed by your patch. In my understanding, the patch assumes that size of mem_map[] in each zone must be multiple of 2^MAX_ORDER, right? But it doesn't seem it's a big problem, as we can just allocate extra mem_map[] to round up if it isn't.
In __free_pages_bulk() changing BUG_ON(bad_range(zone, buddy1)) to if (bad_range(zone, buddy1)) break; should fix this. The start of the zone must be aligned to MAX_ORDER so buddy2 doesn't need checks. It may be worthwhile to make a distinction the bounds checks and the zone check and to BUG_ON() the zone check in isolation and not repeat the bounds check for the validity check. -- wli -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"aart@kvack.org"> aart@kvack.org </a>