[PATCH] rheap: eliminates internal fragments caused by alignment

[Kumar Gala]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 13:48 +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 19:29 +0800, Li Yang wrote:
> > > The patch adds fragments caused by rh_alloc_align() back to free list, instead
> > > of allocating the whole chunk of memory.  This will greatly improve memory
> > > utilization managed by rheap.
> > >
> > > It solves MURAM not enough problem with 3 UCCs enabled on MPC8323.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli at freescale.com>
> > > ---
> >
> > For what it is worth:
> > I have tested this patch and it solves the problem with 3 UCCs
> > as ethernet for me. This fixes a regression introduced after 2.6.20
> > Please consider for 2.6.22
> > Acked-by: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se>
>
> I noticed Paulus pull request to Linus and this patch wasn't
> included. I really want to see it included.
>

I'll push (or request pull) from Linus tonight for this to go into 2.6.22

- k