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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: 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: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:02:50 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C93CCA.9080503@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601140949460.13339@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
>>Objections?
> 
> 
> The whole point of the pre-batching was that apparently the non-batched 
> bootmem code took ages to boot in simulation with lots of memory. I think 
> it was the ia64 people who used simulation a lot. So..
> 
> 		Linus
> 

Changelog doesn't mention it: a226f6c899799fe2c4919daa0767ac579c88f7bd

Or... what do you mean by pre-batching? (maybe I'm confused and you're
talking about my prefetching change or something)

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-14 18:03 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 [this message]
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

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