From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268300AbUHFU4r (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:56:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268291AbUHFUvr (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:51:47 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:32207 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268300AbUHFUqs (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:46:48 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 13:46:44 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andrew Morton Cc: Josh Aas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] improve speed of freeing bootmem Message-ID: <20040806204644.GR17188@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , Josh Aas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org References: <4113DB63.9020706@sgi.com> <20040806125216.30405230.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040806125216.30405230.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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