From: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: akpm@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove memblks from the kernel
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:56:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4016DE81.9080507@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 237770000.1074843321@[10.10.2.4]
Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> This patch removes memblks from the kernel ... we don't use them, and
> the NUMA API that was planning to use them when they were originally
> designed isn't going to use them anymore. They're just unnecessary
> added complexity now ... time for them to go.
>
> There's a slight complication in that ia64 uses something with a similar
> name for part of its memory layout, but Jes Sorensen kindly untangled them
> from each other for us. The patch with his modifications is below. Jes
> tested it on ia64, and I testbuilt it with every config in my arsenal.
>
> Please apply ... thanks,
>
> M.
As the unfortunate soul who pushed this whole memblk concept way back
when, I'll add my support for their removal. The things I envisioned
happening with memblks never materialized and so Martin is right, now
they're just taking up space. Adios memblks, we barely knew ye.
Cheers!
-Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-27 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-23 7:35 [PATCH] Remove memblks from the kernel Martin J. Bligh
2004-01-23 22:27 ` Yasunori Goto
2004-01-27 21:56 ` Matthew Dobson [this message]
2004-01-28 22:08 ` Yasunori Goto
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