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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 14:54:52 -0800
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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: test13-pre5
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   Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 23:58:36 +0100
   From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

   Why exactly a power of two ? To get rid of ->index ? 

To make things like "page - mem_map" et al. use shifts instead of
expensive multiplies...

Later,
David S. Miller
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