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From: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: akpm@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove memblks from the kernel
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:56:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4016DE81.9080507@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 237770000.1074843321@[10.10.2.4]

Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> This patch removes memblks from the kernel ... we don't use them, and
> the NUMA API that was planning to use them when they were originally 
> designed isn't going to use them anymore. They're just unnecessary 
> added complexity now ... time for them to go.
> 
> There's a slight complication in that ia64 uses something with a similar
> name for part of its memory layout, but Jes Sorensen kindly untangled them
> from each other for us. The patch with his modifications is below. Jes 
> tested it on ia64, and I testbuilt it with every config in my arsenal.
> 
> Please apply ... thanks,
> 
> M.

As the unfortunate soul who pushed this whole memblk concept way back 
when, I'll add my support for their removal.  The things I envisioned 
happening with memblks never materialized and so Martin is right, now 
they're just taking up space.  Adios memblks, we barely knew ye.

Cheers!

-Matt


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-27 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-23  7:35 [PATCH] Remove memblks from the kernel Martin J. Bligh
2004-01-23 22:27 ` Yasunori Goto
2004-01-27 21:56 ` Matthew Dobson [this message]
2004-01-28 22:08   ` Yasunori Goto

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