From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org (hellhawk.shadowen.org [80.68.90.175]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "hellhawk.shadowen.org", Issuer "hellhawk.shadowen.org" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4A4D679F6 for ; Mon, 15 May 2006 20:21:01 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <446855AF.1090100@shadowen.org> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 11:19:27 +0100 From: Andy Whitcroft MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] Have ia64 use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes References: <20060508141030.26912.93090.sendpatchset@skynet> <20060508141211.26912.48278.sendpatchset@skynet> <20060514203158.216a966e.akpm@osdl.org> <44683A09.2060404@shadowen.org> <44685123.7040501@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <44685123.7040501@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Andrew Morton , davej@codemonkey.org.uk, tony.luck@intel.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Mel Gorman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bob.picco@hp.com, ak@suse.de, linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Nick Piggin wrote: > Andy Whitcroft wrote: > >> Interesting. You are correct there was no config component, at the time >> I didn't have direct evidence that any architecture needed it, only that >> we had an unchecked requirement on zones, a requirement that had only >> recently arrived with the changes to free buddy detection. I note that > > > Recently arrived? Over a year ago with the no-buddy-bitmap patches, > right? Just checking because I that's what I'm assuming broke it... Yep, sorry I forget I was out of the game for 6 months! And yes that was when the requirements were altered. -apw