Re: [RFC] Reverting NUMA-affine page table allocation

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Mar 02 2011 - 13:19:52 EST



* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 03/02/2011 10:08 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >> To me, it seems complicated for not good enough reasons. I'll defer
> >> the decision to x86 maintainers. Ingo, hpa, Thomas, what do you guys
> >> think?
> >
> > Would be nice to see an actual patch that does the revert.
> >
>
> I also would like to point out that we are at -rc7. The time to test
> new things is quickly running out, so a more conservative option for
> this upcoming merge window is starting to look good.

Hm, i thought the revert was for tip:x86/mm, not x86/urgent. The development window
for 2.6.39 is closing down.

A revert (without an actual bug that it fixes) for -rc8 is definitely out of
question.

Thanks,

Ingo
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