On 15 Apr 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> By author: Amit D Chaudhary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > On the same topic, I have not found any change in free memory
> > reported before and after the ioctl call. Though umount /initrd does
> > free around 2 MB.
> >
>
> With Scott's patch applied, I get substantially better performance on
> low-memory machines, so I'm guessing it's doing its job. Also, just
> umount /initrd for me made it still possible to mount it, so it
> clearly did not go away.
I can't take credit for the patch, just the (mis)fortune of having to
track down its existence. :) All mentions of it in Alan's older change
logs have it uncredited, so I'm unsure if he or someone else fixed it.
Scott
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