Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Jul 2002 23:18:11 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [BK PATCH 2.5] Introduce 64-bit versions of PAGE_{CACHE_,}{MASK,ALIGN} |
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On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Together with the K42 people we found a way to avoid the > > badnesses of an object-based VM. > > eek. Please let's not tie the delivery of the 2.6 kernel to the success > of this R&D effort. We need reasonable-sized fixes, fast, for the > current problems so that people who have feature work banked up can get > going on it.
Fully agreed. We can go with the mechanisms we have now and should only work on new mechanisms later.
I'm planning to keep the whole K42-style VM thing in design stage at least until after the feature freeze...
(just so nobody gets tempted to sneak it into the kernel ;))
regards,
Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".
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