From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932462AbWGHAmJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 20:42:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932463AbWGHAmI (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 20:42:08 -0400 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:30933 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932462AbWGHAmH (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 20:42:07 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 17:41:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: Andi Kleen cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin , Christoph Hellwig , Marcelo Tosatti , Arjan van de Ven , Martin Bligh , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Subject: Re: [RFC 4/8] page allocator: Optional ZONE_DMA In-Reply-To: <200607080223.01380.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20060708000501.3829.25578.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <20060708000522.3829.85832.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <200607080223.01380.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Andi Kleen wrote: > I think your idea of saving some cache lines by not having the unused > zones in the fallback lists etc. is a good one, but your current implementation > with its ifdef maze is extremly ugly. Surely this can be a done less > intrusively? I'd be glad if someone would come up with such an idea.