Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86, numa: Do not adjust start/end forearly_node_mem()

[Tejun Heo]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:36:53AM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:
> So, don't remove the DMA boundary limit.  Even if the current code
> wouldn't result in that (and the current code CAN), it is a good
> sanity check to have because you don't want memory map under 16MiB no
> matter what.

Oh, if you're genuinely concerned about machines which wouldn't be
able to allocate memory map because it doesn't have enough memory
above 16MiB, the correct thing to do is removing the boundary limit
from the fallback generic allocation, NOT from the NUMA aware
allocation.

-- 
tejun
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