Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750718AbWANSG0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:06:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750739AbWANSGZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:06:25 -0500 Received: from smtp201.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.129.91]:37258 "HELO smtp201.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750718AbWANSGZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:06:25 -0500 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=4FxL3GFxaec7F4W0tslA83BPr00dnNmMwFMGj0wZxER4BULzHPdBVRpl7s87ExR/i0//AY1GB/FloMOvUjDdVzGAprQvVJFZjG1+vSCUcBwh+MudEFkdt92w8+P604Hlxgpxqe2o65hOm4sFtuT8rydr1SBwxockkmhwU1cKsVw= ; Message-ID: <43C93DA0.3040506@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:06:24 +1100 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: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrew Morton , David Howells , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [patch] mm: cleanup bootmem References: <43C8F198.3010609@yahoo.com.au> <43C93CCA.9080503@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <43C93CCA.9080503@yahoo.com.au> 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 Content-Length: 1177 Lines: 37 Nick Piggin wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> >> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: >> >>> Objections? >> >> >> >> The whole point of the pre-batching was that apparently the >> non-batched bootmem code took ages to boot in simulation with lots of >> memory. I think it was the ia64 people who used simulation a lot. So.. >> >> Linus >> > > Changelog doesn't mention it: a226f6c899799fe2c4919daa0767ac579c88f7bd > > Or... what do you mean by pre-batching? (maybe I'm confused and you're > talking about my prefetching change or something) > Oh the BITS_PER_LONG batching? That's still completely functional after my patch. In fact, as I said in a followup it is likely to work better than with David's change to free batched pages as order-0, because I reverted back to freeing them as higher order pages. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/