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    SubjectRe: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call
    On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:01:20PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
    >> It seemed, at least on the simple kernel compile tests that I did, that all
    >> the long chains are not anonymous. It killed 95% of the space issue, which
    >> given the simplicity of the patch was pretty damned stunning. Yes, there's
    >> a pointer per page I guess we could kill in the struct page itself, but I
    >> think you already have a better method for killing mem_map bloat ;-)

    On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:14:40PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
    > I'm not going to get up in arms about this unless there's a serious
    > performance issue that's going to get smacked down that I want to have
    > a say in how it gets smacked down. aa is happy with the filebacked
    > stuff, so I'm not pressing it (much) further.
    > And yes, page clustering is certainly on its way and fast. I'm getting
    > very close to the point where a general announcement will be in order.
    > There's basically "one last big bug" and two bits of gross suboptimality
    > I want to clean up before bringing the world to bear on it.

    Screw it. Here it comes, ready or not. hch, I hope you were right...


    -- wli
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