From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932375AbWETV1m (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 May 2006 17:27:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932376AbWETV1m (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 May 2006 17:27:42 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:50847 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932375AbWETV1l (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 May 2006 17:27:41 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: Andrew Morton 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Mel Gorman , 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 References: <20060508141030.26912.93090.sendpatchset@skynet> <20060508141151.26912.15976.sendpatchset@skynet> <20060520135922.129a481d.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060520135922.129a481d.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605202327.19606.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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