On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 19:46 -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > "Improved version", more similar to the 2.6.23 code: > > Fix page allocator to give better chance of larger contiguous segments (again). > > Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@xxxxxxxxx > --- > > --- old/mm/page_alloc.c 2007-12-13 19:25:15.000000000 -0500 > +++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c 2007-12-13 19:43:07.000000000 -0500 > @@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ > struct page *page = __rmqueue(zone, order, migratetype); > if (unlikely(page == NULL)) > break; > - list_add(&page->lru, list); > + list_add_tail(&page->lru, list); Could we put a big comment above this explaining to the would be vm tweakers why this has to be a list_add_tail, so we don't end up back in this position after another two years? James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
