From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
davej@codemonkey.org.uk, tony.luck@intel.com, bob.picco@hp.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] Have x86_64 use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes
Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 23:27:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200605202327.19606.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060520135922.129a481d.akpm@osdl.org>
> Anyway. From the implementation I can see what the code is doing. But I
> see no description of what it is _supposed_ to be doing. (The process of
> finding differences between these two things is known as "debugging"). I
> could kludge things by setting MAX_ACTIVE_REGIONS to 1000000, but enough.
> I look forward to the next version ;)
Or we could just keep the working old code.
Can somebody remind me what this patch kit was supposed to fix or improve again?
-Andi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-20 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-08 14:10 [PATCH 0/6] Sizing zones and holes in an architecture independent manner V6 Mel Gorman
2006-05-08 14:10 ` [PATCH 1/6] Introduce mechanism for registering active regions of memory Mel Gorman
2006-05-08 14:11 ` [PATCH 2/6] Have Power use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes() Mel Gorman
2006-05-08 14:11 ` [PATCH 3/6] Have x86 use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes Mel Gorman
2006-05-08 14:11 ` [PATCH 4/6] Have x86_64 " Mel Gorman
2006-05-20 20:59 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-20 21:27 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-05-20 21:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-20 22:17 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-20 22:54 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-21 16:20 ` Mel Gorman
2006-05-21 15:50 ` Mel Gorman
2006-05-21 19:08 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-21 22:23 ` Mel Gorman
2006-05-23 18:01 ` Mel Gorman
2006-05-08 14:12 ` [PATCH 5/6] Have ia64 " Mel Gorman
2006-05-15 3:31 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-15 8:21 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-05-15 10:00 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-15 10:19 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-05-15 10:29 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-05-15 10:47 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-05-15 11:02 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-05-16 0:31 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-16 1:34 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-05-16 2:11 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-15 12:27 ` Mel Gorman
2006-05-15 22:44 ` Mel Gorman
2006-05-19 14:03 ` Mel Gorman
2006-05-19 14:23 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-05-08 14:12 ` [PATCH 6/6] Break out memory initialisation code from page_alloc.c to mem_init.c Mel Gorman
2006-05-09 1:47 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-09 8:24 ` Mel Gorman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-08 11:10 [PATCH 0/6] Sizing zones and holes in an architecture independent manner V8 Mel Gorman
2006-07-08 11:12 ` [PATCH 4/6] Have x86_64 use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes Mel Gorman
2006-08-21 13:45 [PATCH 0/6] Sizing zones and holes in an architecture independent manner V9 Mel Gorman
2006-08-21 13:46 ` [PATCH 4/6] Have x86_64 use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes Mel Gorman
2006-08-30 20:57 ` Keith Mannthey
2006-08-31 15:49 ` Mel Gorman
2006-08-31 16:25 ` Mika Penttilä
2006-08-31 17:01 ` Mel Gorman
2006-08-31 17:40 ` Mika Penttilä
2006-08-31 17:52 ` Keith Mannthey
2006-08-31 18:40 ` Mel Gorman
2006-09-01 3:08 ` Keith Mannthey
2006-09-01 8:33 ` Mel Gorman
2006-09-01 8:46 ` Mika Penttilä
2006-09-04 15:36 ` Mel Gorman
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