From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>,
Ivan Stepnikov <iv@spylog.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel is unstable
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:04:55 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15006.40279.407072.321187@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010301193017.E15051@athlon.random>
In-Reply-To: <20010301153935.G32484@athlon.random> <E14YXh5-0008GQ-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20010301193017.E15051@athlon.random>
Andrea Arcangeli writes:
> If it happened to be buggy it didn't looked unfixable from a design standpoint
> and I think it was a very worthwhile feature, not just for memory but also to
> avoid growing the size of the avl that we would have to pay later all the time
> at each page fault.
Linus didn't find it to be such a gain, and in fact the one
place that does gain from such merging (sys_brk()) does the
merging by hand :-)
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-01 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-01 9:16 Ivan Stepnikov
2001-03-01 10:27 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-03-01 14:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-03-01 14:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-03-01 18:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-01 18:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-03-01 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-02 8:23 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-03-02 8:40 ` David Howells
2001-03-02 14:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-03-02 17:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-05 23:06 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-03-01 19:04 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-03-01 20:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-03-01 13:39 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-03-01 14:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-03-01 17:12 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-03-01 13:55 Heusden, Folkert van
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