Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750734AbWANSOO (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:14:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750746AbWANSOO (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:14:14 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:1739 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750734AbWANSON (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:14:13 -0500 Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 10:13:54 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Nick Piggin cc: Andrew Morton , David Howells , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [patch] mm: cleanup bootmem In-Reply-To: <43C93DA0.3040506@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <43C8F198.3010609@yahoo.com.au> <43C93CCA.9080503@yahoo.com.au> <43C93DA0.3040506@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 776 Lines: 23 On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Oh the BITS_PER_LONG batching? Yes. > 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. Ok. Then I doubt anybody will complain. I'm still wondering if some of the other ugliness was due to some simulator strangeness issues, but maybe even ia64 doesn't care that much any more.. Linus - 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/