Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:25:58 -0600 | From | Jack Steiner <> | Subject | Re: [patch] mm: cleanup bootmem |
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:53:08AM -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote: > >>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 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
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