Messages in this thread | | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Date | Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:04:55 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: Kernel is unstable |
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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 :-)
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