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SubjectRe: [patch] mm: cleanup bootmem
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:)

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