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Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 23:47:24 +1100
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [patch] mm: cleanup bootmem
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Nick Piggin wrote:
> Objections?
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The bootmem code added to page_alloc.c duplicated some page freeing code
> that it really doesn't need to because it is not so performance critical.
> 

... but actually it is possible that it ends up being faster with this
patch anyway, due to the old code freeing the pages as higher order
batches: they won't have to go through as many iterations in the buddy
allocator. This patch restores that behaviour as well.

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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