Re: bug? in __get_free_pages

Mark Hemment (markhe@nextd.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 5 Nov 1997 01:01:37 +0000 (GMT)


On 5 Nov 1997, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
> Could you, please, send patches on the list (or mail them, if you
> prefer).
> Even very alpha one's would be great, just to experiment with them.
>
> I'm very interested in all new features you mentioned, and am
> investigating things on my own. My primary interest is in that
> "fragmentation issues", but lazy coalescing in page allocator is also
> on my list to play with, it's just I didn't have enough time.

OK, I've reluctantly loaded a snapshot patch against 2.1.60 to;
http://www.nextd.demon.co.uk/patch-colour-2.1.60.gz

Archs, other than Intel, haven't had all the necessary changes made.
Other work still to be done.

markhe