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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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  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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