Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 May 2004 14:11:54 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.7-rc1 |
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On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 02:33:16PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Linux has a tradition of completely rewriting the VM in the middle of a > stable series, why not again? :) > /me is joking, but similarly annoyed... > The VM, like the rest of the kernel, will _always_ be a work in > progress. A stable series should freeze us for bug fixing and > stabilization...
I wouldn't qualify either of the major VM patch series merged as rewrites. I saw: (1) move unmapping function/helpers to different algorithm to save space (2) NUMA API and support functions
At the risk of trivializing the large amount of work that went into minimizing the risk of merging these things, the VM hasn't been changed in any fundamental way by either of them.
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