Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750754AbWANSn3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:43:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750756AbWANSn3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:43:29 -0500 Received: from smtp209.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.117]:38746 "HELO smtp209.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750754AbWANSn3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:43:29 -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=QAHGp79nFG2QkZO0Py+gmWhtMgmT0RP56a9fffYI6AulO+mseswtS6g04I9wo09CMnegJej9aemnbdgf2DMhk4hhuwr4Ph9wqDiJ/WGEiK+UPxUaX33f/EInBlQPaeY6XL4UVFhHAUr7bzq2A5JCRIkPk+4f6T1xdbvGv/J4tKs= ; Message-ID: <43C9464D.6060509@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:43:25 +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> <43C93DA0.3040506@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: 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: 1079 Lines: 33 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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 I'm a little unsure. That's what I suspected when I saw David's changeset was part of an FRV: prefixed batch but wasn't directly related to FRV code. (ie. normally such a patch would be mm: or bootmem:) -- 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/