From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:32:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] bootmem speedup from the IA64 tree In-Reply-To: <20030410134334.37c86863.akpm@digeo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Benjamin LaHaise , hch@lst.de, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, "Martin J. Bligh" List-ID: 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 ... -- 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