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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 01:06:05 -0800
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.50-mjb1 (scalability / NUMA patchset)
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On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 10:11:19PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Speed up page init on boot (Bill Irwin)

This needs a one-liner to go from fls() to ffs() since alignment is
required and things falling on alignment boundaries have fls(n) == ffs(n)

Very straightforward indeed; one-liners off from the 3rd or 4th boot
must be very obvious observations.


Bill