From: Andi Kleen Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:49:24 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [PATCH] x86-64: Reverse order of bootmem lists X-Git-Tag: v2.6.14-rc1~71 X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pandora-kernel.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=5d3d0f7704ed0bc7eaca0501eeae3e5da1ea6c87 [PATCH] x86-64: Reverse order of bootmem lists This leads to bootmem allocating first from node 0 instead of from the last node. This avoids swiotlb allocating on the last node, which doesn't really work on a machine with >4GB. Note: there is a better patch around from someone else that gets rid of the pgdat list completely. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c index c1330cc19783..8ec4e4c2a179 100644 --- a/mm/bootmem.c +++ b/mm/bootmem.c @@ -61,9 +61,17 @@ static unsigned long __init init_bootmem_core (pg_data_t *pgdat, { bootmem_data_t *bdata = pgdat->bdata; unsigned long mapsize = ((end - start)+7)/8; - - pgdat->pgdat_next = pgdat_list; - pgdat_list = pgdat; + static struct pglist_data *pgdat_last; + + pgdat->pgdat_next = NULL; + /* Add new nodes last so that bootmem always starts + searching in the first nodes, not the last ones */ + if (pgdat_last) + pgdat_last->pgdat_next = pgdat; + else { + pgdat_list = pgdat; + pgdat_last = pgdat; + } mapsize = ALIGN(mapsize, sizeof(long)); bdata->node_bootmem_map = phys_to_virt(mapstart << PAGE_SHIFT);