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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: MM mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
	"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Rohland <hans-christoph.rohland@sap.com>
Subject: [patch] zoned-2.3.28-G5, zone-allocator, highmem, bootmem fixes
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 22:33:29 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911132231550.5769-101000@chiara.csoma.elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911132007310.4346-200000@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>

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zoned-2.3.28-G5,

- this one should actually compile if modules support is turned on ...

Changes in zoned-2.3.28-G4:

- implemented 'zone chains' zonelist_t and gfp_mask indexed zonelists[]
  speedups (Linus' idea) to handle fallback zones. This should enable
  advanced NUMA-style allocations as well. [fallback to different CPUs is 
  possible via changing build_zonelists().]

- <=16MB RAM boxes should boot just fine now.

- added page->zone for easier deallocation and generic cleanliness. This
  also helps NUMA.

- cleaned up the page-allocator namespace, there are only two 'core'
  page-allocation functions left: __alloc_pages() and __free_pages_ok().

- modules should compile again.

- we are now inlining the 'put_page_testzero()' part of __free_page_ok.
  This is subtle as page->count for reserved pages is now 'rotating' -
  this is fine though and lets us to put the rare PageReserved() branch
  into __free_page_ok().

- cleaned up pgtable.h, split into lowlevel and highlevel parts, this
  fixes dependencies in mm.h & misc.c.

- serial.c didnt clear freshly allocated bootmem - as a result now all
  bootmem allocations are explicitly cleared, it's not performance
  critical anyway.

- fixed code,data,initmem reporting.

- fixed boot task's swapper_pg_dir clearing

-- mingo

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  reply	other threads:[~1999-11-13 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-13 19:22 [patch] zoned-2.3.28-G4, " Ingo Molnar
1999-11-13 21:33 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
1999-11-13 22:06   ` [patch] zoned-2.3.28-G5, " Chris Wedgwood
1999-11-14 10:16     ` Ingo Molnar
1999-11-14  9:32       ` Chris Wedgwood
1999-11-14 10:43         ` Ingo Molnar
1999-11-14 12:17           ` Russell King
1999-11-14 14:22             ` Ingo Molnar

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