Re: [PATCH v2 03/15] mm: when adding a region, merge with region after as well as before

2022-04-07 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 05:22:28PM +1100, Daniel Axtens wrote: > On x86_64-efi (at least) regions seem to be added from top down. The mm > code will merge a new region with an existing region that comes > immediately before the new region. This allows larger allocations to be > satisfied that

[PATCH v2 03/15] mm: when adding a region, merge with region after as well as before

2022-03-28 Thread Daniel Axtens
On x86_64-efi (at least) regions seem to be added from top down. The mm code will merge a new region with an existing region that comes immediately before the new region. This allows larger allocations to be satisfied that would otherwise be the case. On powerpc-ieee1275, however, regions are