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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:33:23 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.19-preX: What we really need: -AA patches finally in
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>> rmap still sucks on large systems though.
>
> But this is not a fundamental issue, it's implementation.
> Whereas non-rmap will always suck on large systems, for
> fundamental reasons that are unrelated to the quality of
> the implementation.

Absolutely ... it's just not quite finished yet. I'm
convinced it'll be a major win for everyone in the end,
I just squirm a little when I see people advocating it
going into the mainline right now.

M.

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