Re: [patch] mm: cleanup bootmem

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Sat Jan 14 2006 - 13:01:46 EST


Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:

Objections?


The whole point of the pre-batching was that apparently the non-batched bootmem code took ages to boot in simulation with lots of memory. I think it was the ia64 people who used simulation a lot. So..

Linus


Changelog doesn't mention it: a226f6c899799fe2c4919daa0767ac579c88f7bd

Or... what do you mean by pre-batching? (maybe I'm confused and you're
talking about my prefetching change or something)

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