Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Jul 2002 01:19:34 -0300 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: Rusty's module talk at the Kernel Summit |
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Em Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:02:44PM -0600, Cort Dougan escreveu: > Large PTE's aren't free either, though. Cheap enough to implement but > there's some fragmentation that isn't easy to deal with in some > pathological cases. The virtual space is pretty tight on some archs > already. > > A lot of stock distributions load most drivers as modules so a machine well > stocked with devices may run into trouble.
yes, that is what I like about modules: for general purpose distros and also for debugging.
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