Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750933AbWAPP0e (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:26:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750953AbWAPP0e (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:26:34 -0500 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:45211 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750860AbWAPP0e (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:26:34 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:25:58 -0600 From: Jack Steiner To: Jes Sorensen Cc: Linus Torvalds , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , David Howells , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [patch] mm: cleanup bootmem Message-ID: <20060116152558.GA25290@sgi.com> 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1208 Lines: 35 On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:53:08AM -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote: > >>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds writes: > > Linus> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: > >> 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. > > Linus> Ok. Then I doubt anybody will complain. I'm still wondering if > Linus> some of the other ugliness was due to some simulator > Linus> strangeness issues, but maybe even ia64 doesn't care that much > Linus> any more.. > > We still use simulators for a bunch of stuff, but I don't know if this > is affecting it or not. Jack Steiner may know more. AFAICT, the patch doesnt affect the simulator that is used at SGI. I built a current tree, applied the patch & booted ok. No problems. > > Cheers, > Jes -- Thanks Jack - 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/