Query about merging memblock and bootmem into one new alloc

From	Sumit Gupta <sumit.g.007@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Query about merging memblock and bootmem into one new alloc
Date	2015-12-19 15:00 +0100
Message-ID	<qHqdc-3TB-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Hi All,

For ARM Linux, during booting first memblock reserves memory regions
then bootmem allocator create node, mem_map, page bitmap data and then
hands over to buddy.
I have been thinking from some time about why we need two different
allocators for this.
Can we merge both into one(memblock into bootmem) or create a new
allocator which can speed up the same thing which is easy to enhance
in future.
I am not sure about this and whether it's good idea or will it be fruitful.

Please suggest and share your opinion.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Regards,
Sumit Gupta
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Query about merging memblock and bootmem into one new alloc Sumit Gupta <sumit.g.007@gmail.com> - 2015-12-19 15:00 +0100
  Re: Query about merging memblock and bootmem into one new alloc Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 2015-12-21 18:30 +0100
    Re: Query about merging memblock and bootmem into one new alloc Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-12-21 23:10 +0100
      Re: Query about merging memblock and bootmem into one new alloc Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> - 2015-12-22 10:50 +0100

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