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 <[email protected]> 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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