From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 17:13:22 -0700 From: Chris Wright Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 0/2] Zone boundary alignment fixes, default configuration Message-ID: <20060531001322.GJ18769@moss.sous-sol.org> References: <447173EF.9090000@shadowen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , Nick Piggin , stable@kernel.org, Linux Memory Management List-ID: * Andy Whitcroft (apw@shadowen.org) wrote: > I think a concensus is forming that the checks for merging across > zones were removed from the buddy allocator without anyone noticing. > So I propose that the configuration option UNALIGNED_ZONE_BOUNDARIES > default to on, and those architectures which have been auditied > for alignment may turn it off. So what's the final outcome here for -stable? The only relevant patch upstream appears to be Bob Picco's patch thanks, -chris -- 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: email@kvack.org