From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Lee Irwin III Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 20:46:44 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] improve speed of freeing bootmem Message-Id: <20040806204644.GR17188@holomorphy.com> List-Id: References: <4113DB63.9020706@sgi.com> <20040806125216.30405230.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040806125216.30405230.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andrew Morton Cc: Josh Aas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Josh Aas wrote: >> Attached is a patch that greatly improves the speed of freeing boot >> memory. On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 12:52:16PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > hm, OK. I have a vague feeling that Bill Irwin had patches to fix this up > ages ago. I'm going to do some further work here and bring some patches that are simplifications of the most widely distributed ones I wrote up to current, get them tested on a few architectures, and so on. The testing cycle for this will probably take a couple of weeks, and it's a much larger change, so I think Josh's solution is a good interim solution. Merging it also helps in the event that the data structure changes I'm working on don't work out or end up going through an unusually long testing cycle. -- wli