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

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Message-ID: <20110302182551.GB28266@mtj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Wed, 2 Mar 2011 19:25:51 +0100
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, 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

On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 07:19:41PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 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.

It is for x86/mm and it does address the unnecessarily smaller mapping
problem, which Yinghai's further patches address too.  Those patches
are what triggered me to ask for a revert because they kinda show how
ugly the underlying code is and add on top of it.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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