linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Reverting NUMA-affine page table allocation

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Message-ID: <20110302181941.GD13693@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 2 Mar 2011 19:19:41 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Reverting NUMA-affine page table allocation


* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:

> On 03/02/2011 10:08 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> >> To me, it seems complicated for not good enough reasons.  I'll defer
> >> the decision to x86 maintainers.  Ingo, hpa, Thomas, what do you guys
> >> think?
> > 
> > Would be nice to see an actual patch that does the revert.
> > 
> 
> I also would like to point out that we are at -rc7.  The time to test
> new things is quickly running out, so a more conservative option for
> this upcoming merge window is starting to look good.

Hm, i thought the revert was for tip:x86/mm, not x86/urgent. The development window 
for 2.6.39 is closing down.

A revert (without an actual bug that it fixes) for -rc8 is definitely out of 
question.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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