Re: [PATCH] don't use alloc_bootmem_low() where not strictly needed

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Since alloc_bootmem() will never return inaccessible (via virtual 
> addressing) memory anyway, using the ..._low() variant only makes 
> sense when the physical address range of the allocated memory must 
> fulfill further constraints, espacially since on 64-bits (or more 
> generally in all cases where the pools the two variants allocate 
> from are different), the space available for ..._low() is more 
> easily exhausted than the full available range.

hm, i have some vague memories of the _low() being relevant for 
things like PAGEALLOC stability. Thomas, do you remember anything 
specific there?

	Ingo
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