Re: [RFC] Reverting NUMA-affine page table allocation

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Mar 02 2011 - 13:25:58 EST


On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 07:19:41PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Hm, i thought the revert was for tip:x86/mm, not x86/urgent. The development window
> for 2.6.39 is closing down.
>
> A revert (without an actual bug that it fixes) for -rc8 is definitely out of
> question.

It is for x86/mm and it does address the unnecessarily smaller mapping
problem, which Yinghai's further patches address too. Those patches
are what triggered me to ask for a revert because they kinda show how
ugly the underlying code is and add on top of it.

Thanks.

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tejun
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