Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:

>   I remain fairly dubious about this - it seems a fairly specific and
>   complex piece of work to speed up one extremely specific part of one type of
>   computer's one type of workload.   Surely there's a better way :(

The patches provide the basis for more work on this issue. But we need to 
start somewhere. The specific issue addresses in the initial patchset is 
becoming a common case for multi-core applications.

>   The patches at present spit warnings or don't compile on lots of
>   architectures.  x86, x86_64, ppc64 and ia64 are OK.

I have just sent a fix to you this morning when I got your messages. 
Sadly I do not have access to the architectures that failed (arm, alpha 
and ppc32) but the fix simply removes code that is not used for these 
arches.
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