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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:30:17 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>, Ivan Stepnikov <iv@spylog.com>,
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Subject: Re: Kernel is unstable
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On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 06:20:49PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > It's not broken, it's not there any longer as somebody dropped it between test7
> > and 2.4.2, may I ask why?
> 
> Linus took it out because it was breaking things.

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.

Andrea
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