From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753309Ab0HYLIZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:08:25 -0400 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.179.30]:60360 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753249Ab0HYLIW (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:08:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:08:15 -0500 From: Robin Holt To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Robin Holt , Jack Steiner , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org, Yinghai Lu , Linus Torvalds , Joerg Roedel , Linux Kernel , Stable Maintainers Subject: Re: [Patch] numa:x86_64: Cacheline aliasing makes for_each_populated_zone extremely expensive -V2. Message-ID: <20100825110815.GD3220@sgi.com> References: <20100818183024.GZ3043@sgi.com> <4C6DB62C.9040105@zytor.com> <20100820135822.GA3220@sgi.com> <20100820150319.GB3220@sgi.com> <4C6EAA48.7070902@zytor.com> <20100821130757.GC3220@sgi.com> <4C72EB41.9000002@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C72EB41.9000002@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > So yes, this means adding an interface to the e820 allocator, even > though it's scheduled to be replaced. Because the new implementation > will see the new interface and know they have to implement it, and the > interface will make it clear just what exactly is expected of the > implementation. What is the new allocator called? Who is developing it? When do you expect it to be introduced into the kernel? Thanks, Robin