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SubjectRe: [patch] mm: cleanup bootmem
Nick Piggin wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
>>
>>> Objections?
>>
>>
>>
>> The whole point of the pre-batching was that apparently the
>> non-batched bootmem code took ages to boot in simulation with lots of
>> memory. I think it was the ia64 people who used simulation a lot. So..
>>
>> Linus
>>
>
> Changelog doesn't mention it: a226f6c899799fe2c4919daa0767ac579c88f7bd
>
> Or... what do you mean by pre-batching? (maybe I'm confused and you're
> talking about my prefetching change or something)
>

Oh the BITS_PER_LONG batching? 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.

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