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
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