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Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 19:09:11 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: hashed waitqueues
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> This is a long-discussed space optimization for the VM system, with
> what is expected to be a minor time tradeoff.

Actually, I don't expect the mentioned time tradeoff to be
anywhere near measurable. When we wait on a page we go through
the scheduler, context switches, etc...

I'll definately apply this patch and am looking forward to the
results from the ODSL test you have queued.

regards,

Rik
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