Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 06:37:16 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] consolidate i386 NUMA init code
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> The following five patches reorganize and consolidate some of the i386
> NUMA/discontigmem code.  They grew out of some observations as we
> produced the memory hotplug patches.
> 
> Only the first one is really necessary, as it makes the implementation
> of one of the hotplug components much simpler and smaller.  2 and 3 came
> from just looking at the effects on the code after 1.
> 
> 4 and 5 aren't absolutely required for hotplug either, but do allow
> sharing a bunch of code between the normal boot-time init and hotplug
> cases.  
> 
> These are all on top of 2.6.11-rc2-mm1.

Looks reasonable. How much testing have they had, on what platforms?

M
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