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 05:43:25 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C9464D.6060509@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601141011300.13339@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>Oh the BITS_PER_LONG batching?
>
>
> Yes.
>
>
>> 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.
>
>
> Ok. Then I doubt anybody will complain. I'm still wondering if some of the
> other ugliness was due to some simulator strangeness issues, but maybe
I'm a little unsure. That's what I suspected when I saw David's
changeset was part of an FRV: prefixed batch but wasn't directly
related to FRV code. (ie. normally such a patch would be mm: or
bootmem:)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-14 18:43 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 [this message]
2006-01-16 8:53 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-01-16 15:25 ` Jack Steiner
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