Re: [RFC 2/4] Have __free_pages_memory() free in larger chunks.

[Yinghai Lu]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Robin Holt <holt@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> At the very least, I think we could change to:
> static void __init __free_pages_memory(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> {
>         int order;
>
>         while (start < end) {
>                 order = ffs(start);
>
>                 while (start + (1UL << order) > end)
>                         order--;
>
>                 __free_pages_bootmem(start, order);
>
>                 start += (1UL << order);
>         }
> }

should work, but need to make sure order < MAX_ORDER.

Yinghai
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