Re: [PATCH] Introduce nodemask_t ADT [0/7]

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:19:54PM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Find by me if folks have their dirty laundry.  There are limits to my
> powers to set things right.
> Sorry to have provoked your length explanation of physical_balance, but
> in the version of the kernel that I happened to do my research on,
> 2.6.3-rc1-mm1, this is _dead_ code.  The variable physical_balance is
> never read, just written, and only appears on 3 lines total.
> Obviously if it is in use in current versions of the kernel, then it's
> not dead code anymore (at least not without a more profound
> understanding of what's going on, which I make no claims to).

There's probably something in -mm reducing its use that I haven't
looked at; the digression there was based on mainline.


-- wli
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