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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:04:55 -0800 (PST)
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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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 :-)

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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