> [...] According to testing, this patch appears to save somewhere
> between 8KB and 2MB on i386 PC's versus the bitmap-based bootmem
> allocator.
exactly where do these savings come from? The bootmem allocator frees its
bitmaps in free_all_bootmem().
Ingo
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