From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751135AbWEOKAP (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 06:00:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751445AbWEOKAP (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 06:00:15 -0400 Received: from smtp109.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.219]:64086 "HELO smtp109.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751135AbWEOKAN (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 06:00:13 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=UpT+RUPZ90ZK4ziqpfiidMnkQhiFCyRTF03jhGGWfZ9Mm/zsnvP+nOzv2TzRm0NzSyo5rKAEjmDowqhShuNrflu9GHEgSxwFiyYaYEClKNbJ2t7o68cY+lnA45doHOV47P0W03hDmoCM5tp8Utxqvor+cNoK+kbY7btGGdC9mg8= ; Message-ID: <44685123.7040501@yahoo.com.au> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 20:00:03 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Whitcroft CC: Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , davej@codemonkey.org.uk, tony.luck@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bob.picco@hp.com, ak@suse.de, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] Have ia64 use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes References: <20060508141030.26912.93090.sendpatchset@skynet> <20060508141211.26912.48278.sendpatchset@skynet> <20060514203158.216a966e.akpm@osdl.org> <44683A09.2060404@shadowen.org> In-Reply-To: <44683A09.2060404@shadowen.org> 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 Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Interesting. You are correct there was no config component, at the time > I didn't have direct evidence that any architecture needed it, only that > we had an unchecked requirement on zones, a requirement that had only > recently arrived with the changes to free buddy detection. I note that Recently arrived? Over a year ago with the no-buddy-bitmap patches, right? Just checking because I that's what I'm assuming broke it... > MAX_ORDER is 17 for ia64 so that probabally accounts for the > missalignment. It is clear that the reporting is slightly over-zelous > as I am reporting zero-sized zones. I'll get that fixed and patch to > you. I'll also have a look at the patch as added to -mm and try and get > the rest of the spelling sorted :-/. > > I'll go see if we currently have a machine to test this config on. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com