Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:06:24 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [patch] mm: cleanup bootmem |
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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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