Re: [patch] mm: cleanup bootmem

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Jan 14 2006 - 13:12:44 EST




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
even ia64 doesn't care that much any more..

Linus
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