From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44685123.7040501@yahoo.com.au> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 20:00:03 +1000 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] Have ia64 use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes References: <20060508141030.26912.93090.sendpatchset@skynet> <20060508141211.26912.48278.sendpatchset@skynet> <20060514203158.216a966e.akpm@osdl.org> <44683A09.2060404@shadowen.org> In-Reply-To: <44683A09.2060404@shadowen.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , davej@codemonkey.org.uk, tony.luck@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bob.picco@hp.com, ak@suse.de, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-ID: Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Interesting. You are correct there was no config component, at the time > I didn't have direct evidence that any architecture needed it, only that > we had an unchecked requirement on zones, a requirement that had only > recently arrived with the changes to free buddy detection. I note that Recently arrived? Over a year ago with the no-buddy-bitmap patches, right? Just checking because I that's what I'm assuming broke it... > MAX_ORDER is 17 for ia64 so that probabally accounts for the > missalignment. It is clear that the reporting is slightly over-zelous > as I am reporting zero-sized zones. I'll get that fixed and patch to > you. I'll also have a look at the patch as added to -mm and try and get > the rest of the spelling sorted :-/. > > I'll go see if we currently have a machine to test this config on. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- 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