Re: /proc/discontig does not scale

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 04:51:37PM +1000, Mark Goodwin wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> 
> > > The read handler for /proc/discontig does not scale. The problem
> > 
> > is this some ia64 special thing? 
> 
> I think the home for the discontig memory patch is:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/discontig

That patch is so ugly that it will never make it into mainline.
Could you take a look at the work Martin and I did for 2.5? (Same
concept as that patch, but gets rid of horrible ia64-isms).

I plan to do a backport to 2.4.20-pre this week.

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