From: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
To: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <Linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] mm: cleanup bootmem
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:25:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060116152558.GA25290@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq0slrotuyz.fsf@jaguar.mkp.net>
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:53:08AM -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
>
> Linus> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >> That's still completely functional after my patch. In fact, as I
> >> said in a followup it is likely to work better than with David's
> >> change to free batched pages as order-0, because I reverted back to
> >> freeing them as higher order pages.
>
> Linus> Ok. Then I doubt anybody will complain. I'm still wondering if
> Linus> some of the other ugliness was due to some simulator
> Linus> strangeness issues, but maybe even ia64 doesn't care that much
> Linus> any more..
>
> We still use simulators for a bunch of stuff, but I don't know if this
> is affecting it or not. Jack Steiner may know more.
AFAICT, the patch doesnt affect the simulator that is used at SGI. I
built a current tree, applied the patch & booted ok. No problems.
>
> Cheers,
> Jes
--
Thanks
Jack
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-16 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-14 12:42 [patch] mm: cleanup bootmem Nick Piggin
2006-01-14 12:47 ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-14 17:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-14 18:02 ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-14 18:06 ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-14 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-14 18:43 ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-16 8:53 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-01-16 15:25 ` Jack Steiner [this message]
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