Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Nov 1999 22:33:29 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | [patch] zoned-2.3.28-G5, zone-allocator, highmem, bootmem fixes |
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zoned-2.3.28-G5,
- this one should actually compile if modules support is turned on ...
Changes in zoned-2.3.28-G4:
- implemented 'zone chains' zonelist_t and gfp_mask indexed zonelists[] speedups (Linus' idea) to handle fallback zones. This should enable advanced NUMA-style allocations as well. [fallback to different CPUs is possible via changing build_zonelists().]
- <=16MB RAM boxes should boot just fine now.
- added page->zone for easier deallocation and generic cleanliness. This also helps NUMA.
- cleaned up the page-allocator namespace, there are only two 'core' page-allocation functions left: __alloc_pages() and __free_pages_ok().
- modules should compile again.
- we are now inlining the 'put_page_testzero()' part of __free_page_ok. This is subtle as page->count for reserved pages is now 'rotating' - this is fine though and lets us to put the rare PageReserved() branch into __free_page_ok().
- cleaned up pgtable.h, split into lowlevel and highlevel parts, this fixes dependencies in mm.h & misc.c.
- serial.c didnt clear freshly allocated bootmem - as a result now all bootmem allocations are explicitly cleared, it's not performance critical anyway.
- fixed code,data,initmem reporting.
- fixed boot task's swapper_pg_dir clearing
-- mingo [unhandled content-type:application/octet-stream]
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