On (06/05/08 11:24), Kyle McMartin didst pronounce:
I'm not sure what you are referring to as "this" here. If you mean the
zonelist changes, they were done to reduce the number of zonelists that
exist, to clear up an anomoly with MPOL_BIND and to remove a hack called
alloc_should_filter_zonelist() in the page allocator. The pa-risc code that
walks zonelists (presumably for debugging) has been around for a while and
was updated at the same time as the zonelist patches were done, just not as
well as it should have been.
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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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