> 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 ?
