From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 00:10:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 00:10:44 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:18191 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 00:10:28 -0500 Message-ID: <3C9030B8.1010300@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 00:10:16 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020214 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gone@us.ibm.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [RFC] discontigmem support for ia32 NUMA box in 2.4.18 In-Reply-To: <200203140427.g2E4RPq23092@w-gaughen.des.beaverton.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patricia Gaughen wrote: >This patch depends on the patch I sent last week (Subject: [RFC] >modularization of i386 setup_arch and mem_init in 2.4.18 - >http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101562204614563&w=2) to >lkml. It is available for download at >http://lse.sf.net/numa/discontig/memalloc-setup-2.4.18 > Your "prep" patch for discontigmem seems pretty sane... but it's also a [relatively] big patch involving a pretty key piece of code. I wonder if you could split the memalloc-setup patch into multiple steps, eventually arriving at your goal? IMO it would be better to split up the memalloc-setup patch, apply it to 2.5.x initially... (sorry, no comments on your actual discontigmem patch :)) Jeff