From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16023.11378.15003.285568@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:58:26 -0700 Subject: Re: [PATCH] bootmem speedup from the IA64 tree In-Reply-To: References: <20030410134334.37c86863.akpm@digeo.com> Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrew Morton , Benjamin LaHaise , hch@lst.de, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, "Martin J. Bligh" List-ID: >>>>> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:32:09 -0400 (EDT), Rik van Riel said: Rik> On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Andrew Morton wrote: >> Does the last_success cache ever need to be updated if someone frees >> some previously-allocated memory? Rik> I've heard rumours that some IA64 trees can't boot without Rik> this "optimisation", suggesting that they use bootmem after Rik> freeing it. Huh? Where do you hear such rumors? --david -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org