Bob Liu wrote:
This is /proc/meminfo result in my test machine: without this patch: === MemTotal: 1030720 kB MemFree: 750012 kB Buffers: 15496 kB Cached: 160396 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 105024 kB Inactive: 145604 kB Active(anon): 74816 kB Inactive(anon): 2180 kB Active(file): 30208 kB Inactive(file): 143424 kB Unevictable: 16 kB .... with this patch: === MemTotal: 1030720 kB MemFree: 751908 kB Buffers: 15492 kB Cached: 160280 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 102720 kB Inactive: 146140 kB Active(anon): 73168 kB Inactive(anon): 2180 kB Active(file): 29552 kB Inactive(file): 143960 kB Unevictable: 16 kB ... The result show only very small improverment! And when i tested it on a embeded system with 64MB, I found this path is never called while kernel booting.
That's 1 MB improvement which is by no means small! I applied the patch. Thanks Bob!
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