From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
hch@lst.de, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bootmem speedup from the IA64 tree
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:32:09 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304111631100.26007-100000@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030410134334.37c86863.akpm@digeo.com>
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?
I've heard rumours that some IA64 trees can't boot without
this "optimisation", suggesting that they use bootmem after
freeing it.
Doesn't make the optimisation any less valid, though ...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-11 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-10 10:24 Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-10 10:35 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-10 14:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-10 16:46 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-10 13:59 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-04-10 20:43 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-10 20:34 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-10 21:07 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-10 21:02 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-11 20:32 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2003-04-11 20:57 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-11 21:27 ` David Mosberger
2003-04-11 20:58 ` David Mosberger
2003-04-10 15:25 ` Anton Blanchard
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