On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 11:36 +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> Hi Toshi,
>
> On 09/13/2013 03:22 AM, Toshi Kani wrote:
> ......
> >> + if (memblock_direction_bottom_up()) {
> >> + addr = memblock_alloc_bottom_up(
> >> + MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE,
> >> + limit, size, alignment);
> >> + if (addr)
> >> + goto success;
> >> + }
> >
> > I am afraid that this version went to a wrong direction. Allocating
> > from the bottom up needs to be an internal logic within the memblock
> > allocator. It should not require the callers to be aware of the
> > direction and make a special request.
> >
>
> I think my v1 patch-set was trying to do so. Was it too complicated ?
>
> So just move this logic to memblock_find_in_range_node(), is this OK ?
Yes, the new version looks good on this.
Thanks,
-Toshi
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